Letter: Birtspeak
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Sir: Your report on the BBC World Service (16 July) quotes John Birt as saying, "People talk about the World Service like it's a statue in the garden which needs preserving." If the quotation is accurate, it certainly needs preservation from Mr Birt's version of the English language.
WARWICK HILLMAN
Pinner, Middlesex
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