A sage and linguist of my acquaintance thinks that tri-lingual BBC hackette Luisa Baldini (Haileybury and Exeter University) has been got at by the dumbers-down in News. In her reporting of the case of the Grillo Sisters up until tonight, Anglo-Italian Luisa has been pronouncing their name "Greee-law", as any Italian would. On the Ten this evening, it came out as a bathetic and loose "Grillow", as in "Wind In The Grillows".
Bring back Angela Rippon and The Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole.
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