Pronunciation

My offspring miss out letters and it drives me mad

Blossoming

I love hearing different regional accents and dialects, there are some splendid words and sayings out there.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks, Roman history being a favourite subject. One thing that does annoy me is when narrators have not bothered to do any research beforehand and mispronounce the names of historical characters. Cicero is a real bugbear! I do my best to ignore it, and I appreciate that people don’t learn Latin nowadays, but my inner self is still screaming “It’s Kikero” ?

Talking about Latin, both grandchildren did it at school, now my friends daughter is teaching herself this language. I did a course a few years ago, with a very talented lady, an expert on Lincolnshire dialect. Very academic she was told if she wanted to get on in University, she would have to learn to speak the Queens English‘, as none would understand her. So in her words ˋ I had to learn another language‘.

I love hearing different regional accents and dialects, there are some splendid words and sayings out there.

I listen to a lot of audiobooks, Roman history being a favourite subject. One thing that does annoy me is when narrators have not bothered to do any research beforehand and mispronounce the names of historical characters. Cicero is a real bugbear! I do my best to ignore it, and I appreciate that people don’t learn Latin nowadays, but my inner self is still screaming “It’s Kikero” ?

Where does JRM come from? Can’t bear listening to him.

Yes, the Barth, parth, clarss thing is funny isn’t it? I do wonder how thst started. It’s not very consistent though because, for example I would always say Kath for the name and maths for the subject. I’d say parss for the verb to pass but mass for a crowd. Definitely weird. At least those who use the short a throughout are being consistent.

It’s a social thing, which makes some people touchy about the subject.. There are many different accents, but Standard English, Received Pronunciation or whatever you like to call it, is the same all over the country.

A good example is Alexander Armstrong, who comes from the north east but there isn’t a trace of it in his speech.

Depends were you are from, dialect is from an area, or country, accent is how you speak that dialect. Schooling in the 50s was definitely the three RRRs, and in my home county was once called posh because I pronounced words as spelt, ie twenty, but did get taken the mickey of when I said barth, instead of Bath.?

I don’t think you are being unreasonable to feel irritated - you can’t control what irritates you - but I agree with Baggs: I think you will just have to accept your annoyance. There are so many varieties of pronunciation or word usage. One example is Bradley on The Chase always saying “was you?” But that’s just him being himself. Lots of other examples but I think as long as we say what we feel is right ourselves it’s ok. I do
sometimes correct my primary school age grandchildren but I’m not too bothered by what other people do or say.

Alex Scott, the former Arsenal and England footballer and now an excellent sports presenter has been criticised for not pronouncing the 'g' at the end of words. She is an East End girl born and bred, so how is she supposed to speak? Lord Digby Jones was so rude about the way Alex talks during her coverage of the Olympics that she stepped down from her presenting job. Thankfully she was back doing her job on last night's Olympic Games coverage, effectively sticking 2 fingers up at pompous Digby. Good for her!

I think it`s where you come from,for such a small country we have so many different accents.
Two miles away from me the accent is totaly different,and a mile from there the accent is different again,and so on.

You'd hate the local accent here. People say "twe''y".

I think you'll just have to accept being annoyed. Or joke about it. You won't change anything. Big shrug moment, I think ?‍♀️

Yes, it would annoy me, but we are all different, and I am sure someone will come along and say that language is changing all the time