Thursday, April 27, 2017

RTE's Bundestag

Why anytime there is a German word spoken on RTE an attmept is made to insert the letter 'h'?

On the main evening news today a journalist spoke about the 'Bundeshtag'. The word is Bundestag and pronounced exactly as it appears - without the letter 'h'.

1 comment:

Póló said...

It helps to break it up BUNDES TAG.

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