This has been driving me increasingly mad for a couple of years. Instead of saying 'the' as ' thee' before a vowel it now seems fashionable to say ' thuh'. I first came across it in a carol service reading - thuh Angel Gabriel - and I just thought the girl was a bit insensitive. However, it seems to be happening everywhere - TV, radio, everyday conversation. I was finally driven to post this after watching a programme last night about Apollo 13 where the ( otherwise unremarkable) commentary kept talking about 'thuh Apollo astronauts/ mission' until I was quite distracted by it.
Maybe I need to get a life but am I the ( thuh!) only one to have noticed this?
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Pronunciation of 'the'.
campion · 17/10/2008 21:06
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