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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Damon Wilkinson

Train company wants to know if it's been pronouncing the name of your station wrong

A train company wants to know if it's been saying the name of your station wrong. Northern's new on-board announcers have pledged to correct any place names that have been previously mispronounced.

But first they need passengers to point out where they've been getting a bit tongue-tied. New announcers Peter Corley, a conductor based in York, and Laura Palmer, Northern’s cyber security and compliance manager, say they will re-record any announcement which passengers believe 'doesn't respect local pronunciation'.

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