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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Drewomega on 11 April 2010, 22:15:32
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After my rant about the BPC on an earlier topic I have another issue on the BBC. After all we all pay for the priviledge.
In the news etc etc.. Why do the newsreaders/presenters add an "r" to a word or noun? For example "Fionar" Bruce, "Moirar" Stewart, I "sawr" it.. what is that? ffs?
Oh! and you will be wondering about Julia Bradbury. When she was on one of her wanderings, she claimed she was staying in a tent overnight wherever. In actual fact she was sometimes coptered out to a very nice hotel. I was in a particular hotel when she was eh..supposedly under canvas! Nice one! :y
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I wish I had as much time as you! lol
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I wish I had as much time as you! lol
Ah! but I was working. Just staying in the particular hotel. She does like a malt whisky by the way. LOL :D
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Julia Bradbury :-?
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)
i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?
Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day
blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden ;D
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After my rant about the BPC on an earlier topic I have another issue on the BBC. After all we all pay for the priviledge.
In the news etc etc.. Why do the newsreaders/presenters add an "r" to a word or noun? For example "Fionar" Bruce, "Moirar" Stewart, I "sawr" it.. what is that? ffs?
Oh! and you will be wondering about Julia Bradbury. When she was on one of her wanderings, she claimed she was staying in a tent overnight wherever. In actual fact she was sometimes coptered out to a very nice hotel. I was in a particular hotel when she was eh..supposedly under canvas! Nice one! :y
Think yourself lucky they aren't Bristolian news readers! ::) ::) ::)
Then it would be an 'l' after a word ending in 'a', i.e. :
"area" becomes "areal"
"idea" becomes "ideal"
"Cortina" was always "Cortinal"
"Sweda", a make of cash register was always "Swedal"
etc, etc! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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After my rant about the BPC on an earlier topic I have another issue on the BBC. After all we all pay for the priviledge.
In the news etc etc.. Why do the newsreaders/presenters add an "r" to a word or noun? For example "Fionar" Bruce, "Moirar" Stewart, I "sawr" it.. what is that? ffs?
Oh! and you will be wondering about Julia Bradbury. When she was on one of her wanderings, she claimed she was staying in a tent overnight wherever. In actual fact she was sometimes coptered out to a very nice hotel. I was in a particular hotel when she was eh..supposedly under canvas! Nice one! :y
Think yourself lucky they aren't Bristolian news readers! ::) ::) ::)
Then it would be an 'l' after a word ending in 'a', i.e. :
"area" becomes "areal"
"idea" becomes "ideal"
"Cortina" was always "Cortinal"
"Sweda", a make of cash register was always "Swedal"
etc, etc! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;)
Ooarr! I's been down in that area Lizzie. Our office used to be down in Cheltenaaam! ::)
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)
i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?
Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day
blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden ;D
Kir-cod-dy?
And as for Kirkcudbright..... :D
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I thought the BBC stood for English that we can all understand. Try listening to Radio 4, they have a (I guess Afro Caribbean) link guy on there, and I can't understand a word he says. In fact he did ther shipping forecast the other day, and how the hell our local fishermen knew what the bloody weather was like is a mystery to me.
For gods sake old boy what are we coming to. :(
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blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden ;D
Todmorden & Bacup are two around here that they can't pronounce either :y
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They're not very good with SLAITHWAITE, or GOLCAR either!! Huddersfield.
( Slouwit, and Gocar)
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)
i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?
Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day
blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden ;D
Apparently at one point the name was going to be changed to "What's that f***ing smell ???" ;D ;)
See from 4:15 here (NWS): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4B2v6O5AMY
"A Roman and only one ?!?" ;D ;D
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Julia Bradbury.....I would!
Ding dong dang doo!!! :D
I hate the way people on BBC radio 1 (OK< perhaps just Scott Mills) says "So-and-so off of Wells in Somerset"
WTFF is that all about?
And Ann Robinson saying "Thousant" - it's "Thousand", you dim bint!
Bah 'eck, woon day, peepul will arl tork propper...........
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Bah 'eck, woon day, peepul will arl tork propper...........
Like wot they do in Yarkshire? ::) ;) ;D
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So where was JB sleeping then?
And how come she hasn't been snapped up yet?
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)
i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?
Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day
blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden ;D
Closest pronunciation should be similar to:-
Kirr-caw-dae
;D
Langtonian? me? Aye..... :y
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)
i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?
Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day
blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden ;D
Closest pronunciation should be similar to:-
Kirr-caw-dae
;D
Langtonian? me? Aye..... :y
So how about the other two then, I know about Milngavie but not Bearsden.
Then again there's that bridge up your way that us southerners always get wrong. ;D
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)
i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?
Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day
blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden ;D
Closest pronunciation should be similar to:-
Kirr-caw-dae
;D
Langtonian? me? Aye..... :y
So how about the other two then, I know about Milngavie but not Bearsden.
Then again there's that bridge up your way that us southerners always get wrong. ;D
How about:-
Kilconquhar
Auchtermuchty (where the fox hat?)
Kirkcudbright
Ecclefechan
and assorted others.... ;D
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Perhaps there's a job for Countess Dundee in the pronunciation dept. at the Beeb then. ;D
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Perhaps there's a job for Countess Dundee in the pronunciation dept. at the Beeb then. ;D
Nope, thats dialect specific, Dundonian is..... ;D
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But imagine the conversation as MD tried to explain pronunciation to an english presenter. ;D
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Auchtermuchty (where the fox hat?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229RGZH4KNE
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Auchtermuchty (where the fox hat?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229RGZH4KNE
Looks like somebody heard the old Prince Charles joke. ;D ;D
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This thread is starting to remind me of a time when I got lost in North Devon and asked a local for directions.
Long after I figured it out myself and got where I was going by pure chance, I realised that said local had been very helpful in directing me towards the village spelt (on my map) Woolfardisworthy.
The problem is, his pronunciation contained no more than 2 syllables. The closest word in terms of pronunciation from the known English language would be Wolseley. :-/ Not sure where the middle half of the name went. :-?
Kevin
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A girlfriend of mine many years ago used to be a newsreader! one of the Stevenson sisters. I used to give her a hard time especially when she could not pronounce a particular word or a Scottish word or noun. Hence the BPC connection! ::)
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)
i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?
Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day
blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden ;D
Apparently at one point the name was going to be changed to "What's that f***ing smell ???" ;D ;)
See from 4:15 here (NWS): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4B2v6O5AMY
"A Roman and only one ?!?" ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D fk it - just give us a carpet ;D ;D ;D
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Kirkaldy is a great place
im up there alot usually at scoonie hobbies.
Is Kirkaldy no Gordon Browns seat?
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must admit, the media seemed to struggle over how to pronounce Kirkcaldy when the PM was there ::)
i think i heard 3 different versions on the beeb alone! didn't they used to have a department for pronunciation?
Kirk-Coll-Day
Kirk-Kal-Day
Kirk-Cold-Day
blimey, it's just as well he didn't visit Milngavie and Bearsden ;D
Closest pronunciation should be similar to:-
Kirr-caw-dae
;D
Langtonian? me? Aye..... :y
So how about the other two then, I know about Milngavie but not Bearsden.
Then again there's that bridge up your way that us southerners always get wrong. ;D
Milngavie is pronounced Mill-Guy, as you know and Bearsden is simply "Bears-Den" but no one from Englandshire seem able to pronounce it???