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Episode: 0166 - Problematic Pronunciations
Description: 2021.06.15-0166 – Problematic PronunciationsPronunciationsCheck any word of phrase you are not familiar with, or with which you just know you will trip up over:·        The engineering company Thales is actually pronounced ‘tar-les’ and not ‘thayles’·        The word bombardier is ‘bom-ber-DEER’, but when it refers to the French locomotive company it is ‘bom-BARDY-AY’·        A colleague once referred to the city of Middlesbrough as ‘middles-BRUFF’ rather than ‘middles-BURRA’.It may be that you can omit the word or name (at least until you have checked it out), if it doesn’t alter the sense of the story: