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Fully agree with you!

Amol Rajan is a case in point!
Aaaarrrggghhhh!

NO idea why though.

No point in complaining about other people's accents. That's all this is

It's surely not an accent?

Definitely not an accent. It cuts across all accents. It seems to me to beba generational thing.

NotSpaghetti

Amol Rajan is a case in point!
Aaaarrrggghhhh!

TBH I find his ‘gabbling’ speech irritating anyway. He needs to learn to e-nunc-i-ate.

It is an accent. A personal way of pronouncing a word. It's a way that some of you don't like but, tough, nobody is the language police.

Ben Fogle once mentioned ‘a orange’. It just grated on me.

Aveline

It is an accent. A personal way of pronouncing a word. It's a way that some of you don't like but, tough, nobody is the language police.

Ahem! The language police are alive and well on here.😁

Not something ( The) I have ever noticed or thought about, or worry about come to that.

I think you are wrong about the "A" (for example) being an accent.

My husband says it's known as "spelling pronunciation" he says it goes with pronouncing the "t" in "often". Reading words as they are written.

I only use the long "ay" sound for extreme emphasis - "I said a book, not the book".

It's a strange thing to me and I see it sitting alongside vocal fry to be honest!

Aren't students taught about the Definite and Indefinite articles anymore?

Aren't students taught about the Definite and Indefinite articles anymore?

Of course not. It's all about communication, innit?

It isn't accent, it is sloppy pronunciation. Interesting to note younger members in a choir questioning pronunciation . Not, I am in a choir and am fortunate in being taught something I was not aware of, but rather, I have never heard of it, therefore it cannot be right.

Afraid I say the evening and the afternoon so I m sloppy…..hands up I own it 🤣

This came up in my choir. Obviously we all need to be “ singing from the same hymn sheet” and unifying our pronunciation, so our Director of Music pointed this out in the phrase “ the earth” , to be sung as Thee earth. He stated that this is normal in English. A couple of younger members queried this, saying they had never come across this before.

I think where choral music is concerned, you would have to pronounce 'the earth' as 'thee earth' in order to sustain the musical note - depending on the score of course. Or elongate the 'eearth' bit to prolong the words to fit the note tempo! IYSWIM.

Aveline

It is an accent. A personal way of pronouncing a word. It's a way that some of you don't like but, tough, nobody is the language police.

This is Pedants' Corner, we're allowed to be pedantic!

And it's not an accent - it's pronunciation. The rule is mostly that a short 'e' is used before the next word beginning with a consonant, and the long 'e' before words beginning with a vowel.

Accents are accents and they have no rules.

eazybee

^Aren't students taught about the Definite and Indefinite articles anymore?^

Of course not. It's all about communication, innit?

It isn't accent, it is sloppy pronunciation. Interesting to note younger members in a choir questioning pronunciation . Not, I am in a choir and am fortunate in being taught something I was not aware of, but rather, I have never heard of it, therefore it cannot be right.

Of course they are. It is part of the National Curriculum for English at Key Stage 1 and 2.
Two minutes research would have told you this.

If it is thee earth and not the earth then where did the second e go?

English language is very confusing
youtu.be/sOUqHr9tcVY?si=qTeAKdNE3wWBemcF

Our weather forecaster says “ in the early hours”. She makes a glottal stop which is jarring.

An hotel, correct but not heard often now.

Dickens. Accents are accents and they have no rules.

Surely then as everyone has an accent of some kind there should be no rules !!

BlueBelle

Afraid I say the evening and the afternoon so I m sloppy…..hands up I own it 🤣

I can't see anything wrong with that.