On our national radio there is an ad for an upcoming Tchaikovsky concert, but the announcers keeps referring to the composer as "Tchaikossky" - in other words, he doesn't pronounce the V. I always thought the V was sounded even when the name appears, as it sometimes does, as "Tchaikowsky". Am I wrong?
And while I'm on the subject, I occasionally hear Mozart's name pronounced without the "T" sound.
When I was in Bonn a few years ago, I got into a conversation with a local gentleman who had excellent English, but he kept pronouncing Beethoven's name with the "Bee" as in beetroot (which is actually what it is derived from).
All this reminds me of the way Winston Churchill refused to sound the "T" in the word Nazi. He kept calling them "nassies" which took away some of the menace.
Anyway, there is little else bothering me today, thankfully.
And while I'm on the subject, I occasionally hear Mozart's name pronounced without the "T" sound.
When I was in Bonn a few years ago, I got into a conversation with a local gentleman who had excellent English, but he kept pronouncing Beethoven's name with the "Bee" as in beetroot (which is actually what it is derived from).
All this reminds me of the way Winston Churchill refused to sound the "T" in the word Nazi. He kept calling them "nassies" which took away some of the menace.
Anyway, there is little else bothering me today, thankfully.
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