Hi, I'm Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show. On the protest march against mining I went to in Auckland recently I saw a sign which said: Where will the faeries live? Which I thought was quite cute. But I thought they'd made a spelling mistake. Fairy is usually spelt f-a-i-r-y and the plural is usually f-a-i-r-i-e-s .
But I looked it up in Wikipedia and apparently fairy can also be spelt f-a-e-r-y and f-a-e-r-i-e . So there you go. How do you usually spell fairy ?
click here Today I'd like to tell you about a fun site for practicing speaking. It's called English Central. On this site you can watch videos and repeat after each line and it will record your voice and then give you a score for how good you were.
So I think it's a fun way to do a bit of speaking practice. I wouldn't worry too much about the score, because it is just a computer. And I'm a native speaker and I still couldn't get full marks. So if you haven't already, please go and try it out and tell me what you think. STICK NEWS Kia ora this is Stick News. A woman in New Zealand is suffering from a rare medical condition which causes her to speak in a foreign accent.
Bronwyn Fox was born in New Zealand and has never visited the United Kingdom. But for the last two years she's been speaking in what sounds like a mixture of Welsh, Scottish and North London accents. She's suffering from a rare condition called foreign accent syndrome. Apparently foreign accent syndrome usually occurs as a side effect of brain injury.
And that was Stick News for Wednesday the 14th of July. Kia ora.
Word of the Day Today's word is affidavit . Affidavit is probably not a word that comes up in conversation much … unless you're a lawyer. a written statement confirmed by oath or affirmation, for use as evidence in court So for example, if you wrote something saying, I saw Mr X rob the bank at 10am on Monday. And then you went to court and said, I swear this is true , that would be an affidavit.
Last night I watched an episode of Outrageous Fortune, which is a TV series that I love … I talked about it a couple of weeks ago. And there's a character called Pascelle who isn't very bright and she had never heard of this word before. And a police officer tells her she would have to swear an affidavit . And then she goes and tells someone else that she wants to do this, but she says: I want to swear and have a David.
Outrageous Fortune, Series 5, Episode 12 32:55, Zane Gerard: You'd have to swear an affidavit. 33:03, Pascalle West: I want to swear and have a David.
conversations with sarah #792 What did you do?!
Step 1: Repeat Lucy's lines . Step 2: Read Lucy's lines and talk to Sarah. Lucy Have you ever been to court?
Sarah Ah, yes. Only once I think.
Lucy Really? What did you do?!
Sarah Oh, I wasn't being tried. I was just there reporting.
Lucy For The Daily English Show?
Sarah No. When I was at journalism school. Actually I think I might have been to court a few times when I was writing stories at high school as well.
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