Pronounciation on TV

Isn't it jewellery? I've always pronounced it as jewlLEry. Of course I may well be wrong.
My Dad always said redchester for register. It always grated on me, but he was my Dad so I never corrected him.

murder is a judicial term.
homicide covers any culpable killing of a person, so it would include eg manslaughter.
whether a homicide is ajudged to be a murder or manslaughter is for the court to decide.

REEsearch is annoying.

I notice a lot of ‘shtreet’, ‘shtroke’, ‘shtrong’, lately. These things seem to spread (shpread) like a pandemic nowadays.

One that’s not at all new but still irritates me, is CONtribute, instead of conTRIBute.

Oh, and on the shipping forecast, which I often listen to before nodding off, Cape Wrath pronounced to rhyme with math, instead of moth.
IIRC it’s even spelt somewhere in the bible as ‘wroth’ and ‘wrathful’ would sound all wrong pronounced that way - hardly a word in very common usage though.

I’m old fashioned enough to expect Beeb presenters, at least on R4, to talk proper!

I'm another one on the 'Febury' bandwagon. Absolutely makes me cringe every time. Ugh!

Is anybody else sitting muttering to themselves !
Isn’t ‘muttering ‘ a glorious word?

Expresso instead of Espresso, innit, instead of isn’t it, wiv it, instead of with it, ouse, instead of house, homicide instead of murder ( do we have to take on Americanisms), just a few that get me going, not really, just observations with the poor use of English. I wonder if they mess about with French or German in this way??

burgulry instead of burglary

on a tv advert (Vax?)- Platnum instead of Platinum

"Jewlery" instead of "jewellry", it drives me crazy.

last night on LBC radio at i think 10pm news bulletin, the youngish sounding woman newsreader said a word that i did not recognise, and assumed it was some technical term.
the report was about the CofE, and inquiry into how it mishandled reports of abuse.
the word which i had not grasped was, clur-ghee.
it was clergy, pronounced with a hard g.

Exactly the same here, Maggiemaybe - I too was blissfully unaware of it until my OH pointed it out, and rather wish that I still was!

Plenty of other words where people say 'sht' instead of 'st' irritate me though, such as 'shtreet' instead of 'street'.

With you all the way, MamaCaz. I’m fed up now of hearing on the news about our shtudents. The annoying thing for me is that I didn’t even notice it until DH kept pointing it out.

LadyH. Google Angela Rippon and guerrilla, it was much spoken about at the time.

I was taught and still say, I think, negosheation and negosheate, but negoseeation seems to be the new way of saying the word.

Surely, negoteaation would be more sensible?

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FINance instead of finance

Disorentate instead of disorientate

ConTROVersy instead of controversy

ComUUnual instead of communal

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Me too, JackyB - Feb ew ary, instead of FebRUary. I feel the same about Sec a tree when it should be Sec ruh tree.

And how many times do tv reporters refer to the 'Pleece" instead of Police ?

My pet hate is 'tumeric' no its tuRmeric.

Lexisgranny, I'm not sure about Angela Rippon. It was Jan Leeming that Pamela Stephenson used to parody doing that in Not the Nine 'o Clock News all those years ago. But in any case 'guerrilla' is a Spanish words and all Jan Leeming did was pronounce it the Spanish way. All the better to distinguish it from Gerald the Gorilla (who bloody does eat daffodils).

JackyB, you are not alone.

"Febuerry" raises my hackles every time. Unfortunately that's almost every time anyone on the media refers to that month. Is the consonant cluster 'br' really so very difficult to master?

I have just muttered 'negotiation' to myself a few times and I think I tend more towards the 's' in the middle rather than the 'sh'. The latter sounds as if I'm drunk.

My bugbear is when people say CONtribute and DIStribute. It sounds so odd, but more and more people are doing it. But I've said that before here and I seem to be alone in my sadness.

This reminds me of the way Angela Rippon used to pronounce guerrilla!

BTW how does one spell pro.....iation. I would not say anything normally, but then ...