...to want to forcibly correct station announcers' pronunciation?

[Financeprincess]

The large station to which I commute has taken to making regular announcements, advising customers not to take big cases onto the "eskewlators".

I think you'll find that you meant escalators.

AIBU to be driven insane by this? The announcements at this station have also featured "sickth" (sixth) and "illuminous" (luminous).

AIBU to be driven insane with irritation? I suspect that I already know the answer...

They might be doing it for a larf, or because they have a speech impediment? Write an angry letter (name and address withheld of course you don't want all the station staff coming by to look at the loon).

YABU.

Life would be exceedingly boring if we all spoke Queen's English.
Diversity is good.

When people "arx" questions. It's ASK! ASK!

I cannot say sixth. I would love to, just am unable to do so. Unfortunate really, because it's my birth date.

But if they stopped "mispronouncing" these words, then you'd lose valuable input to your superiority complex.

Do you hate it when they split infinitives too?

I certainly do!!

...and yes, I got the irony.

Ok.

how do you prn sixth if not 'sickth'?

oh hang on

six-th

sick-th

it's HARD to hear the diff innit

"it's HARD to hear the diff innit"

Not really.

I struggle with "escalators".. don't know why. I've always called them eskliators instead... again, not sure how they ended up being eskliators, they just are.

when you elide words, I mean

I guess I ain't no Juliet Stevenson ho hum

OP.

I would have thought that sick-th and six-th were both standard pronunciations.

To me sick-th is a very English thing to say.

I don't say it, but it does make sense to shorting the x sound when it is followed by a th.

I've always thought it was quite elegant.

I don't know, I've boggled my mouth, it's gone all oh dear

Like when you try to say Peter Piper Picked A Peck blah blah and it turns into stumble stumble spray blush get me coat.

:o

I love a good tongue twister, me :)

Interesting.

Train stations for British workers only, or you will be forced to undertake elocution classes, paid for by commuters through increased ticket prices.

I want elocution classes, think I should apply for a job at my local train station!

I can't really get my mouth around sickth. But then I say ff for th (I really tried hard to say th but it doesn't seem to get out of my mouth) so it's more sickff.

Ah, I thought you meant when they mispronounce station names (happens frequently on our back-of-beyond rural route). That is annoying.

Also annoying is the trick they've acquired from weather forecasters of stressing the wrong word IN a sentence, typically prepositions. "The train now arriving ON platform six is the 9.22 from London Euston". Only they keep you on your toes by using inappropriate prepositions too - "please keep hold OF your belongings whilst ON the station."

oh GAWD yes to mis-stressors*, so annoying grrrr.

*This is a made-up word

Complain. Go newckiller at them .