A glottal stop too far

Maybe "Expert Grammarians " should get a life and what the hell is "Estuary English" when it's at home?

How about 'Nucular' power?

Oh yes nanasam that one is awful also February without the first ' r ' and burgular instead of burglar. Feel an attack of grumpy old woman coming on.

And burgalry instead of burglary. Inspector Frost (David Jason) used to be guilty of that!

Also joollery

What seems odd to me is that the glottal stop is usually associated with lazy speech, but de'rimen'al is actually harder to say than detrimental . Well it is for me anyway.

I feel like there should be an "ist" for this.
Grammarist. Accentist?

My old headteacher at high school used to say " I will not tolewate jewelly* bless her she had suffered a stroke which left her speech impaired. My best friend was called Julie and we all used to say " Miss Harris just won't tolewate you" cruel I know .

I personally think my accent is dreadful.
It sounds fine to me, until I hear it played back.

I don't mind regional accents at all but my pet peeve is the constant and superfluous addition of the word 'like' into every sentence. In particular the phrase 'I was like...'

My biggest per hate is contrAversy instead of controversy - my husband shouts at the screen for me now.

Typing not so good - it should, of course, be pet.

I have been known to turn a programme off due to the sloppy pronunciation of a presenter. As others have said, nothing to do with accent ( although I admit some do grate a bit) but it is about dropping consonants, sometimes in a pathetic attempt to come across as cool and 'down with the kids'. I hate to hear wa-er and Sa-urday and bu--er. The most cringeworthy episode was when the glottal stop was faked ( unbelievable)in the ghastly broadcast by the Remain group before the referendum; as if all young people are hip hop fans who strut about talking about 'votin and keepin it real, like. Truly ghastly.

When did the Police become the 'Pleece'? They always are on the TV news programmes. Also 'Nuthink' drives me crazy, along with 'Engerland'.

I agree with Jaycee5; I grew up in the East End of London and cannot remember a single person who sounded like anybody employed in the cast of East Enders! 'Not snobbery - just fact.

Aaggh! It's a hot day and I'm starting to get even hotter thinking about this.

Always grates when the weather presenters miss the "t" and often the "d" out of Scotland -comes out as "Scolun". No excuse for lazy speech.

Different "to" instead of "from" and mistakes in the usage of "few" and "less" - singular use of "was " in plural form although "we was " is very much in use in Hull ; could go on .......

My late husband was born and raised in Northumberland. That's not 'geordie', by the way. Geordies are from Newcastle upon Tyne. When we were first married, we lived in St. Helens and when his parents visited us they said they had to talk 'posh' to make themselves understood! ?

My pet hate is would of, could of, should of.

Tony Blair was a major offender (attempting to be 'street'?)and some his colleagues appeared to emulate him.

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I thought her heaving bosom was enough of a distraction from anything sensible she may have had to say, without adding glottal stops into the mix.

nanasam What about a biology teacher who can't say nucleus? Yes, she said nuculus throughout the topic on cells so a whole set of children every year heard that every lesson!

Oh, how I agree with the above, but while we are being 'grammarist', what really makes me mad is when people say 'me and someone' did something, rather than 'someone and I'. It is becoming so common, even with people I would have thought knew better.Grrrr!!!

Antonia Judge Judy always stops people who keep saying 'like' and says 'now say that again without using the word 'like' and people are often incapable of doing it.
I worked with a trainee solicitor who was incapable of saying a sentence that didn't start 'basically'. I told her that it is a doubting word and people want to believe that solicitors know what they are talking about. She said that she didn't know she was doing it.

What a vile comment, daphnedill.

I am a Cockney born and bred, and proud of my roots, but I still pronounce my T's etc and still correct my adult daughters if they slip into Estuary English (moved to Essex) My biggest gripe more than lazy speaking is lazy spelling .How many times do I wish I could correct Facebook entries , with a big red pen, as basic as there/their/they're and two/too/to.....

My pet hate is starting every response with "So"

Times change. When I was at school, I spoke some sentence containing the word "forehead" which I said as it was written, only to have the headmistress tell me, in very icy tones, " It's forrid, gel, forrid". My pet hate is the confusion between I and me and the people who think it sounds posh to use I when it ought to be me!