To think this, from the BBC, is not acceptable.

[pigsDOfly]

BBC South East News report on Dreamland in Margate and their financial problems.

Apparently in 2016 the company went into administration, and then last month, according to the information written on a board behind the news reader's head showing how the situation progressed: 'creditors except 25p in the £1'.

Oh dear BBC South East, that really isn't good enough. Accept, the word is accept.

[DesignedForLife]

Good grief, call the police!

[pigsDOfly]

What?

[SonicBoomBoom]

BBC standards have dropped dramatically recently.

[Gingernaut]

If that was in the subtitles, they really are pretty poor.

[pigsDOfly]

That's true Sonic but surely they should still be able to string a few words together so they make sense.

[FaithAgain]

I blame them for the decline of the terms 12 noon and 12 midnight. Even the Beeb use '12am' and '12pm. There's no such time! If the Beeb, who are seen to uphold high standard, can't get it right, what chance does the common man have?

[StepAwayFromCake]

If it was subtitles, then the problem may not be Beeb spelling, but either Beeb elocution or Beeb diversity and regional accents. The subtitles are computer-generated using speech-recognition.

[StepAwayFromCake]

If they were subtitles, or if it was subtitling. (Tsk tsk Step.)

[RunningOutOfCharge]

Shouldn’t it be ‘to think that this’?

[RunningOutOfCharge]

And as you are asking a question, where is your question mark?

[mellicauli]

Ah..it's the Sympatico subtitling system..you should have heard what they called. Jules Holland...

[pigsDOfly]

No it wasn't subtitles. It was information on a board in the studio on which they listed the progress of the financial problems of the company that owns Dreamland, with pictures to illustrate the information, because clearly the average viewer can't take in information unless it accompanied by pictures.

[MargotLovedTom1]

It doesn't sound like the OP is referring to subtitles, as she said "on a board behind the news reader's head".
I have noticed far too many homophones in published novels: very poor proof reading.

[elephantoverthehill]

Well they can expect 25p in the £ if they have accepted it, surely?

[pigsDOfly]

Yes, I should have put 'that' in my heading, and a question mark, but I've had a long tiring day, and this is a internet forum, so I think I can be a bit sloppy. But you're right, I stand corrected.

[elephantoverthehill]

Sorry! except/expect.

[Carouselfish]

Their standards are down. I've heard newsreaders saying 'sat' when it should be sitting.
They also employ terminally stupid Naga Munchetty.

[Bejazzled]

'Haitch' instead of 'Aitch'
'Math' instead of 'Maths'

Basic stuff but extremely irritating nonetheless

[buckeejit]

That is bloody woeful

[ShoesHaveSouls]

Ah..it's the Sympatico subtitling system..you should have heard what they called. Jules Holland...

The fact is they must do better.

[quizqueen]

Not only poor spelling and grammar from the BBC and poor diction from their presenters but they also only give you one side (their biased left wing, PC brainwashing agenda side) of a story.

[traviata]

But the British people have had enough of experts, so frankly any old crap will do now, provided it generates enough online clicks.

[RustyBear]

My favourite BBC subtitle was the one that rendered 'Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’ as 'cue the family wedding stall'

[Tartyflette]

Ooh, I saw one that said Arctic winds had brought 'deadly lizards to Canada' Arf.

[furlinedsheepskinjacket]

jools holland lol

that's all good then