Of course, in the frenetic world of today's media it would be unrealistic to expect politicians, announcers and newsreaders to pronounce foreign names perfectly.
Yet the newsreader's solution may also help here.
There may be a similar preference for set rules of emphasis in speech, beginning with the newsreaders and spreading outwards.
In this situation, the newsreader would not know which words should be emphasized, in the interests of clarity.
However, although audibility is still the major criterion, it would seem that in selecting newsreaders and news presenters less attention is now paid to accents.
For £50,000 a year, one must be a pretty good journalist and newsreader.
I do not mean the manner in which the newsreader reads the news.
The newsreader said that the genome, "determines the life and death of every individual".
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