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News readers and poor pronunciation
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supercrutch | Report | 2 Jun 2014 15:01 |
When I am confined to my bed I watch an awful lot of news channels, everything from Al Jazeera to Russia today. |
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Dermot | Report | 2 Jun 2014 15:14 |
Welsh people are known to 'talk tidy'. And I use the Wenglish dictionary regularly. |
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Andysmum | Report | 2 Jun 2014 15:45 |
My mother used to get very cross because the BBC (all there was in those days) used to go to enormous lengths to pronounce all sorts of weird and wonderful place names -- except Welsh! :-| :-| |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 2 Jun 2014 16:13 |
indeed - except Welsh - I admit some of the words are difficult to pronounce, even for some of us who are Welsh - but as has been said - they don't even try - they have Welsh speakers working for the BBC - just ask them |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 2 Jun 2014 16:15 |
remember when some pillock decided to pronounce "golf" as "goalf" - they all started saying it - soon got fed up with it though |
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supercrutch | Report | 2 Jun 2014 16:57 |
We used to live in Dyfed, that's Duvved not Diefed or Diffed. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 2 Jun 2014 17:29 |
Mind you there are quite a lot of English villages and places that people struggle to pronounce correctly, mainly because local people over the years have adopted their own way of saying them. |
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supercrutch | Report | 2 Jun 2014 17:40 |
Yes Ann Mousehole is a good example...lolol |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 2 Jun 2014 17:49 |
Owslebury - just up the road from Winchester |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 2 Jun 2014 17:53 |
Hawick :-S |
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Mauatthecoast | Report | 2 Jun 2014 17:57 |
Cowpen .....pronounced Coopun in Blyth, Northumberland :-D |
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SueCar | Report | 2 Jun 2014 20:06 |
Here in the South we have Cosham and Bosham. Cosham is pronounced Coss'm or Cosh'm, but the other one is said Boz'm. My poor mother was rather embarrassed to have to say this when we moved down here in the sixties, because it sounded too much like 'bosom'. :-D :-D :-D |
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Karen in the desert | Report | 2 Jun 2014 20:52 |
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Wend | Report | 2 Jun 2014 20:59 |
Cuckfield down here is so often pronounced 'C - UCK-field rather than Cookfield as it should be, by local radio presenters. Ucking annoys me :-D |
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DazedConfused | Report | 2 Jun 2014 21:03 |
BBC is in my opinion the worst. |
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Karen in the desert | Report | 2 Jun 2014 21:13 |
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MR_MAGOO | Report | 2 Jun 2014 21:13 |
Mousehole...........how do you pronounce Ar*hole then Sis? |
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Karen in the desert | Report | 2 Jun 2014 21:19 |
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supercrutch | Report | 2 Jun 2014 21:20 |
I am pleased it's not just me that gets irritated. |
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Karen in the desert | Report | 2 Jun 2014 21:21 |
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