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Mind your language | 30 September 2006

A reader asks if people are not over-pronouncing words such as little.

issue 30 September 2006

A reader (whose name I would be able to tell you if my husband had not put her letter in the recycling skip, along with the television licence demand and that leaflet from the Post Office about the confusing new postal rates) asks if people are not over-pronouncing words such as little.

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