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The perils of the autocue
by loiswakeman @ 16/05/2007 - 14:57:14

I had a mild snigger on Saturday morning listening to the radio, when Ed Stourton was interviewing the actor Mark Rylance about men playing women and vice versa. He said what sounded to me like:

"of course that is the question mark, Rylance"

- which would have amused Lynne Truss no end if she was listening, as a sort of misplaced audio comma.

The other oddity in his interview was the way he pronounced "biopic", as "bi-opp-ic", rather than "bio-pic". I noticed as the first (mis)pronunciation was a family tradition - one of many word plays that we enjoyed. You can hear it pronounced properly here.

Does your family have silly sayings and puns - or were the Brethericks just odd?

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LissaTLissaT pro
16/05/07 @ 22:42

A Yorkshire news reader once read on air the autocue's "US troops" as the northern "uz troops" meaning our troops.

We also have a number of quoted misuses and mispronunciations which have become standard family usage.

The blog owner changed this comment on 24/05/07 14:10

LissaTLissaT pro
16/05/07 @ 22:42

Grrr! Where did that e come from?

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loiswakemanloiswakeman [Member]
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24/05/07 @ 14:10

Which "e"? :-)

(Annoying not to be able to edit one's posts, I know.)

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LissaTLissaT pro
24/05/07 @ 15:22

Thank you.

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ianrthorpeianrthorpe [Member]
26/09/07 @ 18:23

Yes, on hearing that smeone has been charged with ABH, "he's not an animal then." (GBH is worse)

"In the circumstances he's probably shit himself." In response to the question what would xxxxx do?

and of course

"I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition."

there are many more of course, we're all barm pots as fatsally will confirm

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