Friday, 4 April 2014

Not Washed or Cooked, # 124

I’ve noticed that Timothy Spall, in a television advertisement voiceover, pronounces the company name ‘Wickes’ as disyllabic, by doubling the first vowel. I thought it must be a ploy to draw attention to the name; but perhaps he’s simply reading from a mangled script…

Source: Robin Allen, If You Can’t Stand the Heat (Woodbury, NM, Midnight Ink, 2012), p. 70. Link: Google Books
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