No kidding, there's actually a BBC Pronunciation Department, and they've called me up several times over the past year for help with certain Tagalog words (apparently they have a soap opera with a Filipino character in it). You may recall the Tsaang Gubat and "Lots of Love" incidents before, but my favorite calls from the BBC remain their requests for the correct pronunciation of some - in their words - "ethnic tribe" character names. My top three are:
3. Magbanua
2. Roselyn
1. Kagawad
So good on the BBC for wanting to get pronunciations right, but what I really want is to meet the scriptwriters who decided on Roselyn as the best "ethnic tribe" name out there!
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