Mispronunciation at the BBC. Whatever next!

Oh! Did you mean 'goverment'? Sorry...brain not in gear tonight!

I've never heard 'gowerment'...

BBC news presenters saying North Hampton instead of Northampton drives me mad.

I know, I really need to get a life!

Also often said is "govverment" instead of government

I can just about tolerate all of these but what drives me nigh unto murder is being called a customer instead of a passenger.

Have any of you noticed how many people are now pronouncing "strange" as "shhtrange", and "stupid" as "shhtupid"?

My DH pointed this out to me, and I really wish he hadn't! I now hear it all the time and it's driving me mad!

Thank you Galen – always reliable.

Ever since the Halle travelled by train to a venue!

I think I have heard the train announcement referring to the 'conductor' whatever that may mean.

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?

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

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.

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?

They say that in Birmingham Ana

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

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.

That should be manager.

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.

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

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!!

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?

absentgrana, that's me told!

onlyme According to the OED 1668.

When did 'obliged' become 'obligated'?

Sounds Brummy to me annod