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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0487 – 11 - Contractions and Elisions
Description: 2022.05.02 – 0487 – 11 - Contractions and Elisions11 - Contractions and ElisionsEnsure you have natural conversational contractions in your delivery: “they’ll”, “couldn’t” and (if appropriate for your programme or podcast) “coz”, “wanna”. (Obviously check with a director for ‘signed off’ scripts that you can make these kinds of changes.)We saw earlier how elision makes a read sound more natural. That is, the slight running on of words into one another, with a less choppy presentation that comes with sounding, each, individual, word. In English, we often don’t say a word exactly as it is spelt, becaus...