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.

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…