Supposedly also (along with other aberrant spellings like "hed" and "dek") to distinguish instructions about how to set the copy from the actual copy to be set. But I've never encountered any of them in a UK newsroom.

Some of the bilingual presentation on BBC Cymru Wales / HTV in the 70s and 80s is a masterclass, with the announcer switching languages without dropping a beat.

I had to cover a reception at the Kandahar Club, the British ski club out in Switzerland. Every time I mentioned the name of their organisation, I got pointedly corrected. It's neither KANDA-har nor Kanda-HAR, but a sort of synthesis of the two that only the elect know how to pronounce.

Ednyfed Hudson-Davies, wasn't it? My mum went out with him a few times.

It's 56 years old - that was the re-release!

Such clichéd lyrics, though: boy meets girl, boy breaks in to house to assault girl, girl shrinks boy to miniature size using unspecified magical powers to keep him inside her radio for ever as a sex slave. The old story.