By John Glenday

Squabbles, politics and office rivalry at the BBC are nothing new it seems after publication of a new book lifted the lid on what it was like to work for the broadcaster in the early days of the 1920’s and thirties.

Far from stepping into a brave new world of optimism, science and technology the broadcaster found much of its enthusiasm sapped by interminable debates as to the correct pronunciation to words in common parlance; including how many syllables are present in the word ‘vegetable’ and whether margarine has a soft or hard ‘g’.

At that time an Orwellian pronunciation committee, disbanded Read full story ›

Source: The Drum