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.

How do you pronounce damage?

Most Reporting Scotland presenters say "secetery" Laura Miller is the worst offender but others do it too, I think Anne McAlpine is the only one I've noticed pronounces it properly but she's from Lewis and English is maybe her second language.

My DGM's first language was Gaelic and her English was much more "correct" than us youngsters'. She was of a generation that got belted for speaking anything other than "proper English" at school, though.

@MyOtherCarIsAPorsche, ˈdamɪdʒ.

I say 'damij', more or less, when I read 'damage'.

When I read 'fromage frais' I don't say 'fromij'.

I think we might pronounce 'secretary' in different ways according to where we come from and I don't know whether to use the word dialect or vernacular or colloquiallism.
I think I usually say it with 4 syllables - sec ret er y. I can see that other areas might lead to sec ret ry.
One thing I want the newreaders and reporters to do is to make sure they follow the sec bit with an r sound!

I see all your mispronounced words and raise you .... nasturzhun.

No I lived in London at the time

Same here. I used to get told off for saying garaaaj. I also rhyme Farage with garrij but that a different story.

I heard this in South London.

Yes, and jew-ler-ee is even worse!

Also, “Feb you airy”. It’s February with an “r” in it! BBC presenters are guilty of this as well as “Skoh Land” instead of Scotland.
BBC weather presenters, if you’re going to insist our weather is the same in Orkney as it is in the Borders 300 plus miles away, at least spare us the glottal stop!

Talking of whom, Carol with Scotlind and Englind. Aaarrrgghhh!

Aaaarrrrggghhhh indeed!

Do people who say garaaj say their car is having work at the garaaj or that they are stopping for petrol at the shell garaaj? Or is it just when talking about your own one at home?

The other night my local BBC news said there were less lifeguards on the beaches now. Depressing. (Not a pronunciation thing! An ignorance thing.)

Me and mine, you and yorn... That one is mine, that one is yorn.

(Certainly gets around using the right your/you're)

As opposed to fewer? I'm with you although I have been told, in no uncertain terms 🙄, that either is acceptable because language evolves. You wouldn't have fewer sand though, grains of perhaps, but less sand, fewer lifeguards is as it should be.

It's not acceptable.

This has just come up on Twitter. What thyming!

https://x.com/brian_bilston/status/1964976267096400024

He can't even spell excetera.

Dam, he missed a trick their.

Drives me nuts, as does the equally annoying "Sec- U - tary"!!!!

It might have been heard this afternoon but it is definitely not a recent thing.

It used to annoy my mother who was born in 1908 and has been dead for over 35 years.

I remember her frequently shouting at the television and radio over it.

I’m just getting over nucular. As in power.

I rather like mischievous pronounced as mischievious, with the extra syllable - that’s the way my grandma always pronounced it.

I can't get over nucular or mischievious.