Has it got boring?

Not my own work I must confess :-

There was a young man from Newcastle,
Who could wrap himself up like a parcel,
And in that position, He did a rendition,
Of God Save the Queen through his a****ole

Hmm Sunflowersuffolk I am glad it wasn't "your own work" as whoever wrote it clearly cannot pronounce Newcastle.

Why do newsreaders in particular insist in popping in the "r" giving a "car" sound in the middle when it is an "a" as in "apple" ?

Sorry my pet hate.

Mice and GK sunflower

gillybob where I come from - south wales, it will be Newcarsl for ever.
My Gran would say she had been " Bard in bed with the doctor" for instance.
The hard "a" thing is also rare in the south and west of England and kicks in somewhere north of Nuneaton I think.
But more variety in accents among the newreaders would be welcome - a touch of brummie would be a compromise between northern and southern tastes maybe?
(Mind you there is a bit of a S. Welsh thing going on in BBC news Hugh, Humphries etc so it is not all down to the southern english and their reprehensible lack of hard "a"s)

I got in a complete pickle in NZ with the pronounciation of Dunedin... dune din? maybe dunnadeen? Apparently its dunned in with the emphasis on the e.
And as for Tauronga - there are so many ways for me to get that wrong it is a standing joke.

Where I come from it is Newcarsl, but where I have moved to it is pronounced Newcassel.

My Tasmanian SIL gets annoyed because I pronounce Lego as laygo. It has only one g and that is how it is pronounced in Adelaide. He does go on and on about it and even contacted Lego headquarters to ask them how they pronounce it.

It has a bit boring of late but thanks to all ^^up there, who have given me a real larff!

Jess, bank rhymes with frank
And to you I'd give thanks
That no awful rhyme
Spoiled this thread all sublime

JessM It is Dun-ee-din up here in Edinburgh too - odd because the E in Edinburgh is short, and Dunedin is another name for Auld Reekie. Same chap Edin/Edwin (or however they spelt it back then) and a dun is a fort on a hill.

Grannyknot

Where we lived in Australia was called Melbun but the one just over the Derbyshire border is called Melborn! When it first opened in Australia we bought furniture in Ickear but now we buy meatballs in Eyekear.

Hi*Faye*not sure where you come from or have moved to but Newcassel is probably the closest to the correct pronunciation.

Oops sorry my pervious post was for Faye

What's the "correct" pronunciation of bath and indeed Bath then gillybob ?

I continue to say newcarsle partly to annoy partly because bbc radio new cassel has a load of ungrammatical presenters and proud of their ignorance. Don't know whether or not they are educated and fake it to be one of the people like politicians . (I listen for the traffic and weather in the morning)

Obviously not R4 then stnsgran

How does the Queen pronounce Newcastle, I am sure she has the Queen's English right down to a t. I am from Adelaide gillybob and we do speak slightly differently from other Aussies. Have to admit Newcassel grates for me.

Oh silly me there must have been an R in Newcastle all the time and here's me a born and bred Geordie who didn't realise!

JessM the correct pronunciation of bath (as in the vessel) for us Northerners is actually "bath" just as you would look at it without the silent or invisible R for those who a referring to the City I guess it depend where you come from and whether or not you chose to pop in the R .

I love the way you Geordies say Newcastle, try as I might I can`t copy it!

How does the queen pronounce Newcastle "Faye" ? Well there's a question.

Firstly I would guess she probably doesn't unless she is forced to, as I honestly think the North East of England is not really on her radar.

Secondly I think the queen speaks "plum in mouth English" which is a special language without any dialect and reserved for her (and the rest of her family) and is not necessarily the correct pronunciation of anything.

Oops sorry Faye didn't mean to put your name in inverted commas previously.

I can't change now gillybob and I am sure the queen knows how to speak English even if she didn't have a plum in her mouth. If you went anywhere in the world people would pronounce Newcastle differently, though in Newcastle in Australia I think they pronounce it exactly the same way as you do probably because that is how it is meant to be pronounced.

This isn't so boring now

We may have become boring, or more laid back, but it has been balm for me as my life has gone a bit bonkers at the moment. Can I let you know when I can cope with controversy again?

So gillybob as a Geordie you insist that Newcastle is correctly pronounced Newcassel , so how do you say Paris?

Can I suggest gillybob that instead of getting upset about pronunciation you just lie back and enjoy our differences - if Hugh (the news) Edwards or anyone else from Wales says "newcarsle" it is just part of his lovely educated Welsh accent. He always says castle like that. If you pronounce the city Bath with a hard A, that is part of your accent, which I am sure I would enjoy hearing, and not an insult to the people of Bath. And if the whole of the world with the exception of those who grew up in the West Midlands fail dismally to pronounce the hard G in the middle of Birmingham then , well, that is just, well, because we don't have a lovely Brummie accent. It is still one of the few words that reveal my husband's origins. The other one is Hong Kong, both words pronounced with a very definite hard G.

JessM Totally off the point but then isn't that the usual way? Your post has just reminded me of a wonderful blooper I heard on the radio news many years ago about a plane travelling between "Hangcok and Bang Kong".