Back to mispronunciation

My take is that it would be instructive to hear how the Irish name of Kavanagh is pronounced. Minister Colm Imbert is also an authority in the proper use of words.

It is rather a sorry way to hear how some of us in Trinidad respond when we are corrected upon misspelling certain names.

During the 1970s, a certain radio announcer was so peeved at the different spelling of his first name he scolded the letter writers to his programme.

What followed was a salvo from a weekly newspaper with a message that that Englishman had no right to react in the way he did.

Back to the mispronunciation: the name Geoffrey is heard as Goffrey and one radio announcer, of whom much is expected, was caught up in this kind of self-exposure! No need to call name though he is now elevated region-wise.

There was a certain cricket announcer from one of the islands who was fond of mispronouncing the surname of the phlegmatic lefthander from Arima who played for the West Indies under Clive Lloyd.

When he was told that the name is Larry Gomes, he insisted on the name Gumbs.

JEFFREY M JOSEPH

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