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YouTuber amazed by reaction to coronavirus video jokingly banning speech sounds
Freelance translator Peter Prowse is used to untangling languages and playing around with words.
Key points:
- In a joke video on social media, Mr Prowse pretended to ban certain speech sounds
- He said science showed consonants were more dangerous than vowels
- Despite the comic intent, scientific research underpins some of the claims
But the retired public relations consultant has set tongues wagging — in his native UK, and around the world — with a viral video in which he pretends to ban certain speech sounds on the grounds they increase the risk of spreading coronavirus.
In the joke clip, Mr Prowse suggests the sounds produced by the letters P, T and C will be phased out and replaced with the sounds produced by N, F and L.
“Consonants…
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