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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
I remember an elderly landlord of mine looking at his newspaper, very puzzled, and saying, 'What is a crisp oncer' - the last word pronounced to rhyme as with bonce/nonce/ponce with an 'r' on the end.
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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I'm not a Landlord, but, being "elderly" I confess that I have wondered whether I should be worried about what this "Crisp Oncer" is that you're claiming from me.Originally posted by french frank View Post I remember an elderly landlord of mine looking at his newspaper, very puzzled, and saying, 'What is a crisp oncer' - the last word pronounced to rhyme as with bonce/nonce/ponce with an 'r' on the end.
I decided that you were, in fact, claiming it from S_A.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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'In 1969 he began The World of Michael Watts, a consumer column laced with social comment and humour. This concluded with the Great Corny Joke Contest, offering a cash prize of a "Crisp Oncer" - at £1 "the meanest prize in Fleet Street",[5] and one which became relatively meaner as the years passed. In the 1980s, as the pound coin was replacing the pound note, Watts bought several hundreds of the latter from a bank so that the Crisp Oncer prize could continue." 'Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
There's only one Oncer, so you'll both just have to fight over it.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Third Programme/Radio 3 announcers - 1950s to early 1970s - with audio clips:
Difficult to say exactly why several of these work well - I think it is the hint of a y sound in much of the enunciation.
We are probably also in the realm of slight warmth in the formal distance rather than a harder and colder edged "I'm your pal".Comment
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Those Forumistas who (gasp) have problems (gasp) with Petroc's (gasp) presentation don't presumably derive much pleasure (GASP) from listening (GASP) to Elizabeth (GASP) Alker, who unfortunately also gives the impression of wanting to get to the end of every sentence in record time.Comment
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Surely this is either directed or learnt behaviour?Comment
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One consequence of rapid speech is often that the enunciation of the words is lost, and so meaning too: rather a crucial fault in radio presentation. But I agree with Alps, in the sense that this has become the norm among generations younger than mine, and so, I guess, learned behaviour.
I do find that Radio 3 presentation works better for me if the voice has some timbre, and thus some authority. Lightweight voices just don't do it for me. Intonation is important, too, as it's not a 'water-cooler' chat with a colleague, but the imparting of lnformation important to the listener.Comment
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Whoever was presenting the Prom last night did a fairly gash job of finishing it.Comment
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AND - as SO often happens - the speaker does not drop their voice at the end of if the intro, word, sentence. Exaspera....Originally posted by kernelbogey View Post
...........sorry, didn't catch that?Comment
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A witticism from R4 Now Show: 'the festival is now known as Glasto - because nbury is so hard to say'.Comment
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