Secketary

[MyTattooIsBetterThanYours]

It isn’t secketary.

It is SECK-RE-TARY.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the Home Secretary or the Foreign Secretary, you are not a Secketary.

It’s going to be a long night.

what do you think they should say?

(I use liebree myself. And Febyerry, Wenzdy... GA-rahj or GArridge interchangeably, and I think sekr(u)tree)

Agree, and their online news is sorely in need of a proofreader. If I ever throw a pedants' party, one of the drinking games will involve lapses in BBC grammar, punctuation, and syntax. It will be a hoot and we'll all be hung over for days.

(Edited for fat fingered typo).

Sounds American to me: gah-RAAAAAge

I don't admire Angela Rayner's grammar or lack of it and while she's being a bit less busy for a while I wish she'd learn that 'properly' is an adverb. I don't want her to lose any accent which she has.

When people use his, instead of he’s.
His got a red jacket on. Drives me up the wall

I also had a friend at school whose family would say yorn rather than yours. They’d say is that yorn? Tbf I’ve never heard anyone else say it, but I’ve always remembered it😂

This is dialect though. We say ‘His got his red jacket on’ in Yorkshire, in fact we’d say ‘Is got is red jacket on!’

Leave it though. Imagine how your confidence would feel if you had difficulty spelling or pronouncing words and then people kept making threads going on about it.

@Osmosisfreight , '(h)is got (h)is red jacket on!’ is accent. It's the writing his for he's that's annoying.

@adventurethisyear , this is in Pedants' corner.

Yes!! I would never say “gar-raj”, I’d feel like Hyacinth Bucket 🤣

Garage as in Farage

Yorn is used a lot around here. It's local dialect.

I've got no sympathy if you are a BBC presenter and you say sekety. No excuse whatsoever.

I quite like that. Is it west country?

No. Midlands.

If you cannot pronounce words correctly, then you should not be paid money to be television news anchor.

Even Ron Burgundy managed to swear beautifully live from the studio.

It's actually 'restaurateur'. No 'n'.

I'm not sure about garage. I was brought up saying 'garaj' but.... it sometimes strikes me as being a bit Hyacinth Bouquet try-hard. After all, the French don't have a monopoly on words ending '-age' and we don't pronounce our other '-age' words as '-aj'.

Round here it is Sec-e-tree...

(and Farage is pronounced arse-hole)

And yorn is a contraction of your one.

I'm East Midlands and I know yorn for yours.

(and Farage is pronounced arse-hole)

🤣

Do people say "sec-re-tary" or "sec-ret-tree"?

I think I would say the latter.

@Mydadsbirthday , ˈsɛkrɪt(ə)ri, ˈsɛkrɪtɛri. I say it nearer SEC-rut-ry.

😂😂

I worked with someone whose surname was Lunt and I had to be very careful when I wrote her name. Email has its benefits

Reminds me of a moment when I was doing some consultancy in front of a roomful (large room too) of people with my laptop projected onto a smart board.

I needed to find out the number of rows in a database table, the query should have been:

select COUNT(*) from Contact

unfortunately my spelling of count was off that day and the query errored. No bugger told me, just sniggered. Never forget that.