SomethinK, nothinK, everythinK etc

[denis567]

I have brought this up before, but why do some people pronounce words like something, nothing and everything with a K at the end, rather than ing.
I was watching the first programme in the new series of 'Secret Dealers' today, and the announcer did this three times.

[boxtops]

It's local dialect - why does Ann Robinson persist is saying Five ThousanT

[jno]

did he do it before all words, or just before words starting with a vowel?

[starone]

Irritating isn't it?

[ladybirder]

Local dialect? It's nation wide. Everybody's doing it and it drives me mad. People who should know better reading the news on the TV for instance.

[Sipowicz]

innit just!

[craft1948]

I just think it's ignorant.

[Duncer]

Even more annoying - is there a single newsreader in Britain who can speak without moving their hands?

[erin-x]

I would say it's local dialect/accent. No one in Scotland says it because we say 'nuhin' instead :-)

[Euphemia]

Not in this part of the world.

[starone]

Oh, sipowicz and I was so careful to put isn't it, so no-one would notice it should be innit.

[boxtops]

Who's the Pri Minister, then?

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

It's not local dialect, it's not recent and to be honest, it's not all that common.
I view it as a speech impedement. I can't say owl without saying owul.

[starone]

I think it would be very difficult to talk without using your hands to some extent duncer. I know if someone tied mine up I would not be able to express what I was saying. Don't know why.

[DaisyNonna]

Must make it difficult for non-English speakers learning the language.

[Duncer]

SB1 - I refer to the Phoney Blairisms of insincere hand gesturing and displays of Cameronesque invisible boxes.

[Sipowicz]

I didn't say nothing, instead of, I didn't say anything!

[Duncer]

I was like, you know, like sort of, like, so like OMG!!!

[MarkRae]

There's more:

The second month of the year: Feb-you-worry
The third day of the working week: Wens-dee
A building full of books: lie-bree
The thin blue line: pleece
Wales / whales, weather / whether, witch / which pronounced the same way

Etc

[craft1948]

Okay Mark.............it was only a question.

[erin-x]

It was like totes amazeballs!! Well jel!

Saying that... I have been known to say amazeballs on occasion =s And koolbeans!