Mispronunciation at the BBC. Whatever next!

eh?

How about the difference between milliard and billion?

Or is that just USA weights and measures giving us short shrift again?

....alternate instead of alternative. Imagine walking down alternate routes - you would never get there! Reading an alternate version, missing out every other page...
Oh and 'off of' instead of 'from , 'for free' instead of just 'free' (ecsetera as they say.....)

That's one of my bugbears, granniesruntoo. It seems to have crossed the Atlantic. When two words exist for two different things, they should be used.
I have noticed a tendency for the pronunciation of words with 'cc' such as eccentric of access to be pronounced as if the double c were a double s, thus making access sound the same as assess. 'Essentric' really is an eccentric pronunciation, but gathering currency.

My pet hate is the pronunciation of the letter 'H' as if it were 'haitch'. I wish I hadn't started this now - is that how aitch is spelt?

The pronunciation the OP mentions is the same, I think, as the people who say, for example, 'bek' ''bik' or anything rather than 'book'. We call it 'the flight from the Northern vowel'. They are trying to avoid any sound which might be mistaken for a north-of-Watford accent. Drives me mad.

And what about the confusion of 'aesthetic' and 'ascetic' ? It does make a difference!

onlyme it's not only you! It is a pet hate if mine too. Aitch it is

One thing I have never heard apart from my corner of SW Scotland: even some teachers would pronounce the letter J as jai, to rhyme with eye. Anyone else come across this?

Sounds Brummy to me annod

When did 'obliged' become 'obligated'?

onlyme According to the OED 1668.

absentgrana, that's me told!

Jewlery for jewellery/jewelry really irritates me. And anenemy for anemone. Pacific instead of specific. Yes, nucular is heard more and more these days. And what about people who drop vowels so you get Pleece for police, and such like. There's a man on the antiques programme who does that all the time. How much time does it actually save, if that's the idea, or is it just an affectation? And how often does one hear the letter D replaced by a J at the start of a word? As in jue for due etc. I consider that not as regional but just laziness. It's not uncommon to hear bockle for bottle in Manchester - neighbours of my granddaughters were heard to ask for "a lickle bockle" - so in a sense that could be seen as regional, but it's still laziness. Chimbley for chimney is a strange one too.
I know, I'm becoming a grumpy old woman aren't I?

No 'bockle' language around this part of Manchester! It's laziness, not dialect. I get annoyed with Ben Shepherd, who as a TV presenter should be able to speak properly, but he insists on 'nucular' and says he is 'gunner' do this or that. Perlease!!

Anno Jye for J is sometimes heard in Fife , too, mostly from older people.

Jye is often used by the train mamager over the tannoy on board the train we use from Glasgow, when explaining which coaches are the quiet coaches.

That should be manager.

Another one I'm reminded of is saying anethertist for anaesthetist. Often heard in hospital dramas. It isn't that hard to pronounce surely.

I hate "haitch" as well. I haven't heard Jai for J, but another post has reminded my of my ex mother in law who, trying to sound posher than her Manchester roots, used to pronounce foot as "fut". Hilarious.

Tooth is pronounced by some as 'tuth'. Very odd! Especially when they say 'tuthache'.

They say that in Birmingham Ana

To all of the above I do concur. With accents and dialects I think I'm ok but when even a pier of the realm Attenborough (Dickie not David) gets it wrong I do wonder.... Is it not spacific rather than Pacific?

I believe it was the BBC who put in the polar-bear-birth sequence without mentioning that it was not a wild birth. David Attenburgh leaves more to them now that he is 86. So would I.

Though anyone who could have got close enough to a wild polar bear to film that sequence would deserve a medal for bravery. Even fixing up the sequence in a maufactured snow "den" and persuading a polar bear that it was the perfect place to have her cubs in must have taken months of work. They would need to habituate her to going into it well before her time came, and then cross their fingers that she wasn''t going to choose another place at the last minute. Anyone whose cat has given birth on the duvet or under the sink will sympathise.

Back to the thread - this was not about mispronunciation. I should have ignored it, sorry.

Pacific Ocean; specific details.
Which 'pier of the realm' are we thinking of? Brighton? Southend? Blackpool?

Not about pronunciation but I was a bit surprised a week or two ago to hear Charlie Stayt refer to the train conductor. I am still not happy with train station rather than railway station but how long have we had conductors on trains in the UK?