Wadio Free

I have a friend who is 73 and still says "barfroom" for bathroom, and "pacific" for specific, amongst many other things. She mispronounced my son-in-law's name and continued to do so, which I thought was rude, even after she had been corrected. I find it annoying and I'm sure my son-in-law did, too, although he was too polite to say. It was not even a difficult name to pronounce.

Some people eh! What can you do?

DH always used to say 'lickle' instead of little. I got used to it!

On the whole my son speaks clearly and well but he does say ‘birfday’ I should tell him but if I say ‘There is no F in birthday’ he will burst out laughing and think I am swearing. . So I have backed off.

Are you sure you have the right presenter Evianers? I sometimes listen to that programme and haven't noticed her saying 'Wadio free'.

She can be a bit 'girly and breathy' but then many presenters are!

I don't listen to Radio Three but I enjoy all the accents on both radio and television. I does make me cringe a bit when I hear 'f' rather than 'th' but it's just the way some areas speak and I'm sure my accent grates just as much on some people. Where I come from we say a very nasally 'No' and 'ir/or' are elongated e.g. shirt is pronounced sheeerrrrt and work is weeerrrrk.

I haven't heard that one evianers, but the announcer who annoys me, is the one who introduces the newsreader Mary Nightingale.
She always says "Meery Noitingale". I suppose it is a recording

Why is there the need to introduce the newsreaders anyway?

Me neither ninathenana.
But she maybe related to Jonathan Woss

Very rarely listen to the radio, I have quite a large selection of my own classical music on cds. I do agree however, that standards at the BBC have dropped alarmingly.

Reading the news on Friday afternoon was a young woman (didn't catch her name) who looked as though she had been dragged into the studio as a last-minute replacement. She was wearing a rugby shirt and her hair was unkempt to say the least.
Perhaps they thought there was no-one watching!

No idea