Ofte aspect of the new constitution {for the Trish Free State which Mr. de Valera has introduced is likely' to! Present some trouble, not from a Politi point of view, but on. the Score of pronunciation, How is "Eire" the new name for the country to be pronounced? Of hand it would be Suggested that the word should be Pronounced like the _monosyllable word for anger, but such, it is said, is not the case. "Eire" is a disyllable and itis suggested should be pronounce fed like "Sarah" beheaded and with tthe same accentuation, Pronunciation "Dail Eireann," literally "the Assembly of Ireland," is even more in-{trieate. "Dail" is also a disyllable and [though the British Broadcasting Cor-[poration anouncers seek to get over: the trouble by saying "Doyle" they do not succeed. An Irish authority. says that the word should be approached much more reverently, starting first with "Thaw" substituting for the T and following it up with the sound "il" with stress on the frst syllable—"Dhaw'll" "Eireann" Jsounds, when correctly spoken uncommonly' like "Aaron", with of course 'a more generous allowance of R than the Anglo-Saxon usually gives the word. It is obvious that if this is the case the appropriate committee of the BBC. which passes from time to time on the pronunc! ton of broadcast words will have to take action, and that quickly if
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