Pronunciation watch - Albeniz

[Guest]

What is it about Spanish? For a language whose pronunciation follows such simple and consistent rules, it seems to baffle most R3 presenters - not long ago Rob C came up with "Aguatho" for Dionisio Aguado, and "Granathos" a while back. Tárrega defeats them all.

Katie D came up with a new pronunciation of Albeniz today, placing the stress on the final syllable And she's normally so keen to show off her impeccable diction.....

By the way the recital she was presenting was...OK

[Petrushka]

Don Jewan or Don Wan

Don Kwixoat or Don Keyhotee.

[jayne lee wilson]

Mispronunciation is especially annoying when google can so quickly oblige ... for any R3 presenter it's not good enough, just laziness really.

And don't most sports commentators get it right effortlessly these days? Don't recall being annoyed much with the Olympics ones (ah, so long ago...)
Maybe the round-ballers could comment...

(Hey Petrushka - shouldn't that be Don KeyhoatAY?)

[teamsaint]

Mispronunciation is especially annoying when google can so quickly oblige ... for any R3 presenter it's not good enough, just laziness really.

And don't most sports commentators get it right effortlessly these days? Don't recall being annoyed much with the Olympics ones (ah, so long ago...)
Maybe the round-ballers could comment...



(Hey Petrushka - shouldn't that be Don KeyhoatAY?)

You are right, on the whole footy commentators tend , or seem,to get it right...and they have plenty to contend with.

Almost makes you feel nostalgic for the days when Joe Mercer needed to have 3 or 4 goes at pronouncing Cruyff, and still ended up with something nearer to "Crufts".

Anyway, poor research by BBC presenters..inexcusable...what else do they have to do all week ?!

[Simon]

Katie D came up with a new pronunciation of Albeniz today, placing the stress on the final syllable

Not new to me, Richard: I've heard that before elsewhere. One can be charitable and assume a mistaking of the dot of the i for something larger...

Nonetheless, I don't feel it is fair to criticize too much: the mangling of English that one hears from foreign newsreaders and commentators is far, far worse. And they've often grown up with background English in ways that most of us have never grown up with a foreign language.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

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[vinteuil]

... I blush, remembering that for many years (having encountered the words in text rather than having heard them spoken) I mis-placed the stress on Girolamo (as in Frescobaldi) and Cristofori (as in the inventor of the piano):
with my rudimentary teenage grasp of Italian words being stressed on the penult, I thought it was Girol- A - mo and Cristo - FOR - i - instead of - of course - what it should be: Gi - ROL - amo and Cris -TOF - ori....

I plead the ignorance of a teenager. Such pleadings are inadmissible from well-paid RADIO THREE announcers/presenters...