Chekhov's Mistress
Quixote Radio Discussion
I lifted this entirely from Book World
For any Don Quixote fans out there, you can hear a discussion of the book and its cultural impact on BBC Radio Four’s In Our Time programme. You can listen or download the programme here. One word of warning. The trailers for it that I heard this morning had presenter Melvyn Bragg pronouncing the hero’s name as “Quick Sot”. No doubt he and his learned panel have settled upon this quixotic pronunciation for some compelling reason, but I’m not sure I personally can hear it without wincing.
BBC Radio Four’s In Our Time programme
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That “quick sot” thing reminds me of my intolerance for the English “dawn JEW-un” ("Don Juan"). I mean, what was Byron thinking??
– amcorrea (03/19 at 03:52 PM)
Very much an English malaise, this mispronunciation of non-"English" names. Mind you, the yanks do it too with words from other languages but then it’s sometimes seen as a function of their xenophobia and intolerance. What’s the theory behind the English malapropisms?
– igloo (03/21 at 09:19 AM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: March 17, 2006
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