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To say it's NOT pronounced like this?

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DaanSaaf · 11/10/2018 21:31

Cutlery.

Cut-le-ree
Not cuttle-ree

Sets my teeth on edge. What pronunciations annoy you?

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elbowlicker · 13/10/2018 07:34

People who say cereals instead of just cereal e.g: ‘do you want some cereals?’
Asdas and Aldis; as in ‘It’s from Asdas’.
Ugh- Does my nut in!

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YeTalkShiteHen · 13/10/2018 07:46

@BumDisease one of those cheap, usually blue and white thin wee cloths that come in a pack of about 20.

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FrancisCrawford · 13/10/2018 07:49

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YeTalkShiteHen · 13/10/2018 07:55

FrancisCrawford I think that’s the point many are trying to make about jay and jai. It’s dependent on area, school and upbringing.

Not that it’s wrong, as one pp was adamant.

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Blackoutblinds · 13/10/2018 08:00

I agree YeTalk. It may be “wrong” if you consider that the only “correct” pronunciation is the RP one but it isn’t the 1920s anymore and the BBC announcer on the wireless going out to the Empire doesn’t exist any longer. Thank goodness.

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ThisIsTheFirstStep · 13/10/2018 08:00

elderly but many accents don’t add an intrusive ‘r’ so I don’t think that it’s that people do it automatically, it’s obviously learned.

‘drawing’ has a link anyway, it has a linking w, it’s pronounced ‘draw-wing’. Same as law and order. Outside se england, it’s prounounced law win order.

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YeTalkShiteHen · 13/10/2018 08:01

Blackoutblinds absolutely. It would be nice to hear more regional accents on tv/radio in general though.

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Blackoutblinds · 13/10/2018 08:01

Emmm I’m outside SE England and I say “law an order” not law in order.

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ThisIsTheFirstStep · 13/10/2018 08:03

black well it’s pronounced as a schwa, however you want to demonstrate that using the roman alphabet.

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treaclesoda · 13/10/2018 08:08

I think these days the BBC have a lot of varied accents, which is great.

I think that with dramas etc there is a tendency for them to be set in London and that there tend to be a lot of 'English' accents. Although with the diversity of London in real life you could probably have actors from anywhere playing the parts and it wouldn't sound out of place.

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fabmabs · 13/10/2018 08:08

I think it's all interesting - I'm from West Yorkshire (less is more there when it comes to consonants) but have lived south for many years. I say some things differently from people down here but am not aware of it until DD points it out.

Draw/drawer

Maybe I've heard both and not noticed. Is it rhotic rhotic r thing?
I looked up rhotic R on Wikipedia and there are 2 handy maps of where it was used in the 50s vs 2000. I'd never heard of a rhotic R til I saw this thread.

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YeTalkShiteHen · 13/10/2018 08:13

I think these days the BBC have a lot of varied accents, which is great.

Many varied English accents I agree. Not so many Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish though.

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fabmabs · 13/10/2018 08:16

Lucyautumn

Ex-presso

Totally agree** I'd put that at no 1

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MyGastIsFlabbered · 13/10/2018 08:37

Has jool-ery been mentioned yet (jewellery)?

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Samantha2018 · 13/10/2018 08:47

I could've written this! My OH says cuttleree I've been correcting him for years I really don't understand

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forthelifeofpomme · 13/10/2018 08:52

Register, pronounced red-chester instead of reg-is-ter.

Is there such a thing as a blue-chester? Are we talking furniture here?

silent scream, clenched fist

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strawberrisc · 13/10/2018 08:53

@YeTalkShiteHen

BBC News in the morning

Holly Hamilton - Irish
Carol Kirkwood - Scottish

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YeTalkShiteHen · 13/10/2018 08:56

strawberrisc so out of the literally thousands of people employed by the BBC you can come up with 2.

Kind of proves my point no?

If it was usual, they wouldn’t stand out.

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strawberrisc · 13/10/2018 09:15

@YeTalkShiteHen

I’m talking about ONE programme. Really small team. If you were to throw in the English regional accent of Steph McGovern what more do you want?

When I was a child none of them would have got near a BBC Newsroom as only RP was allowed.

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YeTalkShiteHen · 13/10/2018 09:16

I’m talking about ONE programme. Really small team. If you were to throw in the English regional accent of Steph McGovern what more do you want?

Oh I don’t know, for the actual population of the UK to be represented fairly in the programmes we watch and listen to?

When I was a child none of them would have got near a BBC Newsroom as only RP was allowed.

Well exactly, it would appear that only very small steps have been made to change this though eh?

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princesstiasmum · 13/10/2018 09:33

Chester drawers isnt correct either,its just a lazy way of saying chest of draw ers ,not draws

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strawberrisc · 13/10/2018 09:35

I disagree. I could give many other examples. I’m all for representation but I’m totally against pushing for representations sake.

Best person for the job.

For example I love Huw Edwards reporting style. He didn’t get the job because he’s Welsh it’s because he’s a great presenter. If a rubbish Welsh (or English or Scottish) presenter interviewed for the job I’d hate to think they got it for the sake of representation.

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EspressoButler · 13/10/2018 09:42

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AlmondVanilla · 13/10/2018 10:01

Can I just ask all the people who pronounce J as "jai/jigh" like Kai/high, do you sing it that way in the alphabet song?

So... "Aitch, Eye, Jigh, Kay, Ell, Em, En, Oh, Pee". I tried singing it and it sounded so wrong! Because I'm used to the Jay rhyming with the Kay. Blush

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