Subj : How British is that? To : All From : Finnigann Date : Thu Jun 23 2005 02:53 pm Listening to a news/commentary show (Discovery) I heard the following names pronounced: Helium - Hell-ium Ballast - Ba-LAST I thought you only misspelled words and not muck up the pronounceation. But I was wrong, it seems. The announcer was a young female so she can be forgiven I suppose. .... KEYBOARD: An instrument used to enter errors in computer. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.45 þ Synchronet þ Bits-N-Bytes BBS Onehellofa BBS bnb.dtdns.net .