to find it grating when people don't say their S's properly

[ByThePowerOfGreyskull]

Shtranger

since when has it been pronounced with a SH instead of an S sound

there are a million other examples ..

Some people can't pronounce certain letters. Just a speech impediment. My niece can't say 'r' properly. It's sort of a w/r sound.

I have a slight lisp and my S is a bit funny. More whistley.

I would imagine S could come out as SH if you had a problem.

I am sure the poor people who have the bare the speech impediments find it fairly grating too.

no no no you misundertand.. my son has speech problems and that isn't what I meant..

there seems to be a habit emerging from tv presenters and radio presenters that seem to use the SH sound instead of a S sound in the same way as people say secutary instead of sectretary

I'd be a pretty shit speech therapist if I did.

Oh! I see, yes, irritating. Like pacific and specific, cutlry and cutlery, oh, and seMY not semi.

It's endemic in Oz. "Ashoom" instead of "assume".

And don't get me started on "stummick" instead of "stomach".

Gets me too.

As does 'Wensday', and dropping 'aitches' and middle and end consonants (li'ul, comin'). GGGRRRRRRR!!!!!

The 'seckertree' one really grates when the BBC news refer to them so regularly.

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