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Tulisa tongue twister

The BBC has departments devoted to pronouncing dialect and names; but they must have been in management meetings this morning, leaving news presenter Joanna Gosling to struggle with the name Tulisa Contostavlos:

‘We’ll just leave it at Tulisa,’ said the tongue-tied presenter.

The Spectator sympathises with Ms Gosling: try pronouncing Taki’s name.

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