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Friday, 9 December: A plan for power bills; Putin pulls his nuclear threat; Cricket's tampering saga bounces back; And our most mangled words

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The Challenge of Pronouncing Words Correctly

Cricket Australia hasn't commented on what Erskin had to say, but it was a tough day for Warner yesterday overall. His was an early wicket to fall in the test match against the West Indies in Adelaide. Other than that, the Aussies did pretty well, so fingers crossed for them in day two today. It turns out there's some common words that people might struggle to get right. The captioning group has been compiling a list since 2016 of the words and names most often mangled by TV news readers, pollies and public figures. I'm definitely now a backpack person, so we've got a link to my new backpack. And just before we go

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