You'd have thought someone with a name as Welsh as Evan Davis would have been able to pronounce Pontcysyllte, as in the aqueduct.
On BBC Radio 4's Today Programme just before nine o'clock this morning there was an item about Telford's famous engineering masterpiece and its World Heritage status, but neither Evan Davis nor his guest Dan Cruickshank could say its name with any degree of accuracy.
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Evan Davis reviews the item here, but he doesn't attempt another pronunciation.
UNESCO is apparently deciding this week whether to add the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct to the World Heritage list. (I thought it was already a World Heritage site, but I've just looked at the current list and it's not there. Yet.)
edited to add a link to Evan's review - thanks, Adam.
edited once more to improve the link to the original item.
2 comments:
Worth watching Ed and Evan's review of the programme, too, where Evan doesn't even attempt another go at it! He does say he'd like to visit it, though.
I guess that's on the website - I'll have a look (listen).
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