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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009mis-hyphenation heard on radio broadcast
Posted to news:uk.media.radio.bbc-r4 via news:alt.usage.english so, please, be aware of potential for cross posting in follow-ups. Was listening to a show on bbc radio4 today called "You & Yours", a general magazine show with news, science and consumer, social and ethical features. If I recall the programming right it was at 20 past a male presenter prevented an invited guest from digressing too far as the slot was running short so, allowing a couple of minutes for the hourly news bulletin which preceded the show, "listen again" listeners using the BBC's iPlayer may find 20:00 a good starting point. But it's the first time I can recall hearing a mis-hyphenation. I don't remember the full intro verbatim, but the phrase which caught my attention was "...E.U.-type approval..." Certainly the stress pattern the, now female, presenter used suggested she was reading cold from a script or autocue, and it came over not dissimilar to structures such as "American-style democracy". With the recent drive for harmonisation across safety standards not only inter- industry in the UK but generally across Europe, Type Approval standards crop up all over the place. Don't know what the onion has to say on the subject but those interested in quite what "E.U.-type approval" as broadcast might add up to in reality may wish to search UK magazine "Private Eye" for "EU-phemisms", a series of single-frame cartoons issue by issue. G DAEB COPYRIGHT (C) 2009 SIPSTON -- [snipped in places] > Was listening to a show on bbc radio4 > today called "You & Yours", a general [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > But it's the first time I can recall hearing > a mis-hyphenation. Bear in mind that this is the program that many years ago had an article on someone who'd been conned out of several 10s of thousands by a "rare coin" company. They'd promised him that "his money was being kept in escrow in Canada", to which Y&Y replied "We looked on a map, and there is no place called Escrow in Canada".  SignatureOnline waterways route planner: http://canalplan.org.uk development version: http://canalplan.eu >[snipped in places] > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >escrow in Canada", to which Y&Y replied "We looked on a map, and there >is no place called Escrow in Canada". It's on at 12 noon daily. It's only put there to make a noise to for those sad souls who need a voice constantly ringing in their ears to reassure them that they are not alone in a hell of their own creation. It is designed, as someone said, as a buffer between the morning and afternoon programmes which may be ignored by all thinking persons while they have their lunch. > >[snipped in places] > > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > afternoon programmes which may be ignored by all thinking persons > while they have their lunch. Gosh, sounds just like the Jeremy Vine show but without the music. SignatureLinz Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford My accent may vary >> It's on at 12 noon daily. It's only put there to make a noise to for >> those sad souls who need a voice constantly ringing in their ears to [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Gosh, sounds just like the Jeremy Vine show but without the music. Exactly. So much for choice. > sipston_...@my-deja.com writes: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > escrow in Canada", to which Y&Y replied "We looked on a map, and there > is no place called Escrow in Canada". I hadn't heard that and I don't entirely believe you but I like it. I think I encountered the word "escrow" in a computer-age context, probably related to either computer software which you don't want to lose access to if your supplier goes bust, or data encryption keys, or just money in transactions such as on eBay (but I don't know if they do it). Wikipedia reminds me that Terry Pratchett invented a fictional Transylvania-type country where there /is/ a place called Escrow, which I assume is hilarious. Also Bad Schüschein, and Don'tgonearthe Castle. Robert Carnegie filted: >> Bear in mind that this is the program that many years ago had an article >> on someone who'd been conned out of several 10s of thousands by a "rare [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >just money in transactions such as on eBay (but I don't know if they >do it). A child on Art Linkletter's "House Party" once announced that he had one baby brother, and another in escrow...Art asked him what he meant, and he said that his father told him that when something's in escrow, it seems like it's never going to come out....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? In article <50fa74f8-c539-47c4-873e-6995c6d1fe8c@v17g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, on >Posted to news:uk.media.radio.bbc-r4 >via news:alt.usage.english so, please, >be aware of potential for cross posting >in follow-ups. [] >But it's the first time I can recall hearing >a mis-hyphenation. > >I don't remember the full intro verbatim, >but the phrase which caught my attention >was "...E.U.-type approval..." [] Haven't you ever heard reference to a tooth-comb? This is such a common mis-hyphenation that it borders on being more common than the correct version. SignatureJ. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously outdated thoughts on PCs. ** I'm in shape ... round's a shape isn't it? I believe the E.U. has a special web site of things that aren't true about the E.U. But Googling "EU myths" turns up other pages first. No link to the "proper" one, but here's the FCO: <http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/fco-in-action/institutions/britain-in-the- european-union/quick-guide-to-the-eu/what-is-the-eu/common-eu-myths> UKIP (but says the myths are true): <http://homepages.tcp.co.uk/~ukip/rom_eu_myths.html> John Craven's Newsround: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/european_union/ newsid_2679000/2679631.stm> |
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