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Sir, - I have concluded that if you can't beat radio announcers and reporters, you must join them

Sir, - I have concluded that if you can't beat radio announcers and reporters, you must join them. So, in future, arctic must be artic, February must be Febrary, government must be goverment and memento momento. I involve BBC as well as our local scene.

Furthermore, fulsome must in future mean complete, and not in- sincere. To my amazement, both Charlie Bird and Nora Owen misused the word on Morning Ireland on May 4th. - Yours, etc., J. Roycroft,

St Brendan's Drive, Dublin 5.