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Paper harvest

Do you know what I am? I am a data farmer. Preparing for the audit tomorrow I put my finance files on the big table in the conference room and there it was, my bounteous crop, fruit of a year's labour, spread out before me. Then I went back to my desk and set up new depreciation schedules, sowing the seeds for next year.

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Buying the papers this morning, I overheard a man, who was holding an iPod, talking about his "EE-pod". I've always thought it was "EYE-pod". Which is it?

[Poll #777530]


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I've been marking radio auditions this afternoon, which is a job I very much enjoy. Prospective presenters have to read a list of one hundred miscellaneous words and two typical news items. My favourite part is the word list. The word most often pronounced incorrectly is "antipodes", or "anti-poads" as many potential announcers would have it. Personally, I'm pro-poads.

How would you go?

The word list (pass mark 75)
  • mischievous

  • albeit

  • controversy

  • recognise

  • interesting

  • Australia

  • withdrawal

  • exceptional

  • plethora

  • law abiding

  • bough

  • alacrity

  • awry

  • expect

  • Timor Street (one of the City by the Sea's central streets, pronounced TIE-more)

  • veterinary

  • February

  • Saturday

  • obesity

  • excessive

  • restaurateur

  • actually

  • thrown

  • dichotomy

  • mandatory

  • premise

  • libertarians

  • assume

  • polygamy

  • unite

  • twenty

  • acquisitions

  • burglar

  • nuclear

  • holocaust

  • environment

  • veteran

  • epitome

  • collaboratively

  • recognisance

  • eminent

  • Cobboboonee (a local forest, pronounced "cobbo-BOON-ee")

  • rhetoric

  • criteria

  • quay

  • inventory

  • contribute

  • et cetera

  • longevity

  • schism
  • archipelago

  • government

  • communiqué

  • advocate (noun)

  • educated

  • geography

  • indicted

  • decade

  • remuneration

  • lengths

  • probably

  • antipodes

  • oesophagus

  • strength

  • fifth

  • sanguine

  • poignant

  • acerbic

  • genetic

  • insatiable

  • facsimile

  • prospects

  • ambivalence

  • Nullawarre (a local town, rhymes with "sorry")

  • hyperbole

  • cortege

  • pseudonym

  • decathlon

  • Gunditjmara (the local Aboriginal co-operative, "GUN-ditj-mara")

  • phenomenon

  • vulnerable

  • grand prix

  • coup

  • huge

  • Spadanza (a local racehorse, pronounced "SPUD-anza")

  • seismic

  • diode

  • multidisciplinary

  • critique

  • metropolis

  • spasmodic

  • regularly

  • epitaph

  • psychosis

  • hallucinatory

  • schizophrenia

  • anonymity

  • choreography

  • connoisseurs

  • surreptitious