The over enunciation of S

[Lex345]

Am I the only one who gets irrationally, internally furious at this, usually during news reports? It makes me cringe and I am willing them to shut up or to not use words with 'S' in them! In longer reports, I have to change the channel, it honestly riles me that much 😳

Not speech affectations, I mean a very obvious effort to over pronounce S. Also I have never noticed it "in real life"/face to face-only ever on TV.

AIBU to wonder why some people do it? It sounds awful!

Issue is a sign of what kind of education you had, Ishoo- pleb

Issyou not pleb

I disagree. Issyou - Hyacinth Bouquet
Ishoo - weird
Ishyou - normal

@AmDillDandin

I'm definitely an ishoo, tishoo person BUT

when people say ashoom instead of assyoum it jars.

Go figure 🤷‍♀️

Same

I have a relative who pronounces the word homosexual as "hommer-SEK-sseuille". Infuriating.
This is absolutely how my very well-spoken grandmother would say it, along with issyou, tissyou and my favourite, which made her sound absolutely barking, Eyss-ee-un (Asian). Also darta rather than dayta for data.