Stephen Davenport wrote:

On 5 Dec, 20:56, Mike LONGWORTH wrote:
My current bête noire is with the new (but incorrect!)
pronunciation of many words:

We now get:

- cultcha for culture
- lezja for leisure
- Lancasha for Lancashire
(and similar for all other counties ending in -shire)
- pleece for police

--
Mike LONGWORTH, Yateley, Hampshire, UK

And "Febrooey" for February.

Also, has anybody else noticed that a lot of younger broadcasters (and
others) now seem peculiarly to pronounce "good" as "gid"? And shorten
other "oo" sounds similarly, in fact?

Finally, one thing that really "gets up my goat" is the constant use
of "refute" instead of "deny" or "rebut", even on the BBC.

Stephen.


P.S. Hello to Brian Blair, Norman Lynagh and Will Hand (a very long
time ago, though, Will!). Nice to "see" you all again.


And hello to you, too, Steve. Nice to see an old new name on here, if
you see what I mean :-)

--
Norman Lynagh
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
85m a.s.l.
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