To think it's not negoSSSiate

[Alpanini]

Have you ever met anyone who says negosssiate instead of negoshiate in real life? If so, do they also say situasssion instead of sitchuation? And mensssion for mentchion? It's weird, right? Bothers me every time I watch the news. And don't get me started on Breggsit.

@cloud oh lets! Skedule, obviously..

As an American, I would think negosssiate is more 'British' and correct. It's the British-English I heard on TV growing up- which no longer exists really.
SHED-uyal was also another one for 'schedule' which I don't hear anymore.
I think it's just a case of today's British using Americanisms so much more commonly now, they've forgotten their old school enunciation/pronunciations.
British English has changed incredibly in the 20+ years I've been here.

Those posters adamant that letter pairs such as ti and ex only have one pronunciation, could you clarify how I should be pronouncing 'gh' please?

See! I just read up thread how someone hates 'chube'.
I really miss that.
Sorry to pull out my 'When I was a youngster and I first came to London' bit but here I go again:

Chube for Tube
Chune for Tune
Jew for Dew

I miss all that! You guys don't notice it but we Yanks do. I find the accents in Britain really nasally now as well. Everyone sounds whiny. You sound like us! I blame Friends for ruining your accent and your lovely way of speaking.
When I was a teen and a total Cure fanatic, I LOVED the way Robert Smith would say 'agayn and agayn'. Agayn! You guys used to say that.
Why'd you have to get all boring and Americanised? It does kinda suck because I came to the UK for all of your little colloquialisms and great music. Both have disappeared sadly.

I think one has to accept that hearing our wonderful language mauled is a consequence of having to mix with the lower classes.

To those that say eggsit for exit do you also say eggseptional for exceptional and eggxited for exited?

I think the better question is, do they also have seggs?

Mission

Does anyone remember Supernanny and how she pronounced unacceptable as unasseptable?

The problem was she couldn't pronounce unasseptable either.

Ah. But is it "skon" or "skown"?

I still say shed-ule (schedule) but I'm old and set in my ways.

I'm a "shed-ule" person but yes, this may well be age related.

Hate "haitch" DH says this and it drives me nuts. But the worst one is "supposeably"
At least we agree on that.

It's shed-ule of course!

And its scone as in gone.

😂 at ‘seggs’

Enough with the seggsual innuendo please. It’s very seggsist.

Australian here

To those that say eggsit for exit do you also say eggseptional for exceptional and eggxited for exited?

No, Yes

do they have seggs

No 😂

It’s eggzit, ekseptional, eggzited and seks

@fivelittleduckies

nailed it 😎