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NPR’s Weekend Edition touches nerve with their pronunciation of emu – Liverpool City Champion
I’m going to say it once more for the people in the back. There is only one correct way to pronounce emu.
It started with a lost pet bird and it ended with an international debate (read: correction) about the pronunciation of one of Australia’s national animals.
But let’s start at the beginning.
Every weekend American media organisation NPR goes to air with its radio program The Weekend Edition. Last Saturday’s line-up included a segment by Stu Rushfield about a woman in Maryland who lost her pet emu.
It turns out the emu, Winston Charles Featherbill, had learned to open the gate with his beak….
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