The CBC’s Grammar Guru speaks
by Judy Maddren
In 2003, I took over the task of keeping what we called our Language File up to date.
Before that, Russ Germain had spent years compiling a computer file of all the loose papers and printed materials that had been posted on newsroom walls and stuffed into bookshelves and filing cabinets. A huge task!
We now have a computerized reference of more than 11,000 entries for pronunciations, grammar and style, our guidelines for the craft of good broadcasting. It is available to all news editors and broadcasters, indeed anyone using our internal communications program and the intranet here at CBC.
The CBC has had a broadcast language adviser for almost as long as CBC Radio has been on air. Someone recently asked if I was the current incarnation of the “tweedy pipe-puffing” pedant of the past. But there is really no room at all for pedantry.
Read more and comment at the CBC News Editors’ blog.
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