to be irritated by the fact the newsreader said

[Libra1975]

"pay back 32 grand" instead of "pay back 32 thousand pounds".

I think I probably am being unreasonable in the changing face of the english language roll with the times and all that but by god it irritated me.

No you are not.

I get really irritated by that sort of thing on the news. They really should speak properly, like what i do

Dumbing down even on the news. It's lazy and unacceptable.

You'd love the news over here (Australia) then

Instead of robbers/burglars we have "bandits".

Instead of saying "xxx was attacked by robbers", they say "xxx was bashed by bandits".

And they have managed to turn the word Farewell into a verb - at the end of this month "we will be farewelling 2008" or when someone dies, the report says "xxx was farewelled by family and friends".

Bless 'em, I think they're just trying to create their own language LOL

YANBU, they should uphold some sort of standards. At the dss' Christmas Concert this week one class did a Nativity drama, which the class teacher narrated, and she kept saying "Aks" instead of "Ask", .

Aks - sounds like a Catherine Tate superfan!

YANBU

The newsreader on our local radio constantly says 'gonna'

It's driving me insane, surely newsreaders are meant to speak properly?

I can't stand it when the news is all chatty.

YANBU, seems the only criteria for reading the news is having a margin of sex appeal to the general public.

YANBU. I always thought newsreaders were meant to speak queens english.

Tigurr, I have also heard "bingle" for car crash spoken by an announcer in Australia!

Urgh, was it ITV? I hate ITV news, they have to create a CGI graphic of everything, especially court cases

Hearing "bashed by bandits" would make me laugh. (not that being beaten up is funny of course).

Ooh, I've not heard "bingle" yet... love it!

Libra1975 -yup, I struggle to keep a straight face watching the news here sometimes. The best ones are when the politicians have had an argument in parliament and called each other names like prick & twat... it's fantastic

I studied that for GCSE's

Argh, it would bug me too!
At ds's school play (which was fantastic) one line in the final song went like this:

"we've got no more to show ya".

I cringed and squirmed in my seat...Awful awful awful use of language. And completely at odds with the rest of the play which was brilliant and enjoyable and just great.

Shudder.

I also hate grand instead of thousands. I sometimes watch homes under the hammer (crappy morning property show) and both presenters use grand instead of thousand. I used to want to throw things at the screen.
(instead I just stopped watching it