There are various theories as to why they gained the Auntie knows everything If she doesn’t know she makes stuff up really fast shirt nickname, but the most logical one is that, in its early days in the 1920s and 1930s, the BBC, under its first Director General, Sir John Reith. laid down its role to “educate, inform and entertain” its audience. In the 1940s and 1950s, the social structure of the UK had been disrupted because of the war and the BBC’s paternalistic, upper-middle-class, slightly patronizing approach didn’t seem to fit. It became known as an ‘Auntie knows best’ approach. This was shortened to ‘Auntie’ and the BBC had a new nickname. Aunty Anu” is the correct form of address between these two choices. I myself would have simply said “Aunt Anu”, but that’s because I do not call any of my mother’s sisters ‘Aunty’.
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