Quarter disappeared into the wild blue yonder, along with secretaries (secetries), batteries (battries), length (lenth), secateurs (seceteers), fifth (fith) and. . . . . oh, stop me now! I could just go on and get myself really wound up!!!
AAAAARRRGH! I'm with you on that one PP. What is worse is that the broadsheet newspapers are employing (ignorant imo) young journalists who use the phrase. Worse - they use it for a header. Even worse - the sub-editor knows no better!
Should that be "is" Oasis MU? (hope you don't mind the abbreviation). I always thought that it was a group of some kind. Turns out it was a couple of singers (if memory serves). Which morphed, at some stage, into a "band", And there I was, thinking that a band was a group of musicians who could play instruments (and sing along) - you know, something like the Glen Miller lot!
I thought it was just me with the 'f't'b'llas'. The first time I noticed it was Razer Ruddick but it seems to have become prevalent.
I listen to Radio 5 Live and as I was in bed one night there was a Welsh girl reading the news. She pronounced Havana as Havana and something else outrageous in the same broadcast but I can't remember now. I couldn't get to sleep for ages! ON THE BBC!!!!!!
PP time was when the Beeb had a pronunciation department which advised on correct pronunciation of all sorts of words. (Remember Angela Rippon and "Gerrillas" aka terrorists?) It seems today, however, that regional accents/pronunciation trumps all, and received pronunciation is elitist. Heaven forfend that those who care a bit about communication should worry about how a word is pronounced.
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Quarter disappeared into the wild blue yonder, along with secretaries (secetries), batteries (battries), length (lenth), secateurs (seceteers), fifth (fith) and. . . . . oh, stop me now! I could just go on and get myself really wound up!!!
I could of commented but I thought I'd better not! AAAAARRRRGH!!!!!!
AAAAARRRGH! I'm with you on that one PP. What is worse is that the broadsheet newspapers are employing (ignorant imo) young journalists who use the phrase. Worse - they use it for a header. Even worse - the sub-editor knows no better!
Should that be "is" Oasis MU? (hope you don't mind the abbreviation). I always thought that it was a group of some kind. Turns out it was a couple of singers (if memory serves). Which morphed, at some stage, into a "band", And there I was, thinking that a band was a group of musicians who could play instruments (and sing along) - you know, something like the Glen Miller lot!
I thought it was just me with the 'f't'b'llas'. The first time I noticed it was Razer Ruddick but it seems to have become prevalent.
I listen to Radio 5 Live and as I was in bed one night there was a Welsh girl reading the news. She pronounced Havana as Havana and something else outrageous in the same broadcast but I can't remember now. I couldn't get to sleep for ages!
ON THE BBC!!!!!!
PP time was when the Beeb had a pronunciation department which advised on correct pronunciation of all sorts of words. (Remember Angela Rippon and "Gerrillas" aka terrorists?) It seems today, however, that regional accents/pronunciation trumps all, and received pronunciation is elitist. Heaven forfend that those who care a bit about communication should worry about how a word is pronounced.
I have the regionalist of all regional accents but I still put the emphasis on the right syllable!!
Try saying that out loud!
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