What's Wrong With Pronouncing Words With A Letter "t" In Them?

[10ClarionSt]

I hear this regularly on the radio. Not so much on TV. Words like Commiddee, fighdin, mighdy, cidy, etc. How do they get a job as a presenter/newsreader?

[dannyk13]

Maybe they are on a tea break.

[10ClarionSt]

Very good, Danny! A permanent one, I think.

[Buenchico]

They've obviously given all the t's to the traffic announcers, who insist on referring to 'Huntington' instead of 'Huntingdon' ;-)

[10ClarionSt]

A fair point, Chris. That's the opposite isn't it? But further emphasizes my point of how they get these jobs. Do they not have to do some kind of audition with their pronunciation?

[Prudie]

Yes - the more away from cut glass English pronunciation they are the better at their auditions nowadays. They are picked just because of it in many cases.

[10ClarionSt]

I find it annoying. I'll get slammed for this, but I find female presenters more annoying than male ones because they all seem to speak from the back of the throat or down the nose. There is a woman on Sky Sports News who does that and has a heavy Scottish accent that I couldn't follow unless I had the text on. The worst one for it is the Asian looking girl on BBC Breakfast. Can't remember her name because if she's on, I turn it off.

[vulcan42]

Not forgetting my favourite in traffic, the "A twenny tree"

[sunny-dave]

As with so many things, I blame Tony Blair - he deliberately dropped his nice RP accent to be “down wid da yoof’ and it then became compulsory (unless you are actually Jacob Ree Smogg)

[hellywelly4]

Don't get me started on Beth Rigby on Sky News!!! I always switch over when she comes on.

[maggiebee]

I get mildly annoyed at English people who drop the H at the beginning of a word. In Scotland we would say a Hotel, not an otel.

[douglas9401]

Maybe this could wait until the small matter of two drones, one male and one female, on a couch reading sentence-about in a bored fashion in what I can only assume is for gender balance is looked at and resolved.

Yours, Peeved of Potterton.

[Jackdaw33]

Mangled pronunciation can sometimes be funny. My favourite is the time I sought admission to a Working Men's club of which I was not a member but had a pass which allowed me entry. The doorman asked me, " Are you filleted (affiliated)?"

[dunnitall]

Another one is the glottal 't' ... As in got ...goh what ... Whohh . Awful but then I do like speech to be used as meant ... Picky I know but why corrupt what has always been?

[Jackdaw33]

Certain words, but by no means all, beginning with H are preceded by an, not a. In received pronunciation it would be 'an hotel'.

[gingejbee]

maggie...but, there again, nobody in Scotland pronounces "woman" properly...

[maggiebee]

Really gingejbee? I would have thought the word woman was fairly straightforward. In what way do we pronounce it wrongly?

[Jackdaw33]

The technical term for a change of sound, though not necessarily spelling, is mutation. Anyone who has tried to learn Welsh will know what I mean.

[Jackdaw33]

That's another interesting one. Wuhman but wimmen.

[bednobs]

in my last jb, the cases were either eligible or not-eligible, but you'd be amazed at how many people thought the word was pronounced illegible

[Jackdaw33]

I would have said 'ineligible'.