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Letter: Pronounce what?

Published 3 September 2008

From Kevin Halford

It was interesting to read of others sometimes being unsure of pronunciation (21 June, p 27).

I am a distance-learning science undergraduate with the UK’s . One tutor at an OU summer school, who had also taught in brick universities, commented that she could often tell brick students from distance learners: the former knew how to pronounce a word but didn’t know what it meant, while remote learners knew what a word meant but not how to pronounce it.

Overpelt, Belgium

Issue no. 2672 published 6 September 2008

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