| 12:30 UK time, Tuesday, 22 August 2006
A daily guide to words and names in the news from Lena Olausson of the Â鶹Éç Pronunciation Unit.
"Today's name is the Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece, where to spend last night on the beach. The pronunciation is hal-kee-dhi-KEE (-dh as in "this")."
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Now I know that most English speakers will have trouble with a [x] in word-initial position (that is the ch in Loch Ness that we're talking about) - but the peninsula referred to in the North of Greece is pronounced not hal-, but chal-chi-dhi-ki (ch = the ch in loch, dh = th in the, this, that).
Come on English speakers, a little more effort and you'll stop sounding so foreign. ;)
To the Â鶹Éç Pronunciation Unit
Plaese tell all your newsreaders and presenters (esp Breakfast) that apartheid is pronounced apart-hate
This is my upteenth time of commenting on this. Thank you !!
I've just got some very strange looks from the office colleagues as I tried to say that - it isn't easy.