AIBU to think that the BBC should employ newsreaders who know how to pronounce words correctly?

[Dawndonna]

I have put up with 'contra verse y' for years, recently it has been 'pie ra cy' and 'pry va cy'. This morning, I heard 'in gin u a' for ingenue. I turned it off.

Yeah, I know it's trivial, but it annoys the hell out of me!

I think the fact that MNers can't agree on most of these rather vindicates the BBC newsreaders being allowed to vary things a bit. Thank goodness.

One of the more interesting ones for me is the word swede. Now all Cornish people know it is pronounced turnip but everyone else says swede!

Right, can't put it off any longer. Is it skon, or sk oh n?

For what it's worth, they're skons to me - but I hear sk oh ns can be equally tasty.

And I'm so sad that no-one calls it Toosy - when I lived in that area 30 years ago, it was used to catch us out - 'bet you can't say this'. And so the language moves on - or maybe they were having us on all the time.