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Letter: Birtspeak

Warwick Hillman
Tuesday 16 July 1996 23:02 BST
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Birtspeak

Sir: Your report on the BBC World Service (16 July) quotes John Birt as saying, "People talk about the World Service like it's a statue in the garden which needs preserving." If the quotation is accurate, it certainly needs preservation from Mr Birt's version of the English language.

WARWICK HILLMAN

Pinner, Middlesex

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