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David Allan writes:
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The problem is that 'I' as the listener, while very interested in the
weather generally, also wants to know what the weather is going to be like
in my particular locality. For the record, I live in northeast England, so
when I hear the weather presenters passing comments like "it looks like it's
going to be a cracking day tomorrow" or "we could see temperatures reaching
27C this coming weekend"... I have to often work it out that the 'we' bit
refers to the London and south-east area of the UK and not 'we - the UK'.

Sometimes, though, the presenter will say something like: "Moving on to
Scotland, we're going to have a lovely day tomorrow." I hate that false
mateyness. We all know that the presenter is in some studio several
hundred miles from Scotland, so why does he/she say "we" rather than
"you"?
--
John Hall

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."
Katherine Cebrian