TV news readers' pronunciations

Yes Jalima I agree, but when you have 12 items in your basket and you go to the "Fewer than 10 ..." does it really matter.

On the self-service version that may be followed by "unexpected item in the bagging area"!!

What's the "bagging area"?

Like it BlueBelle - I guess that's why the US still uses the word "gotten".

I clearly have a lot to learn about neologisms (whatever they are) and the other stuff, but sometimes it just doesn't sound right to my ear.

As the thread title refers to pronunciation rather than the twisted way with words presenters often use it reminded me of Moira Stuart. She was/is (but on CE show so never hear her) a wonderful news reader. You could hear every word she said and she seemed to take great care in pronouncing the most unfamiliar names or words. Bring back Moira to the evening BBC1 news I say!

Never one to miss a dig, eh? DJ
Well is it?

Yesterday on Breakfast TV I heard that the Duke of Edinburgh was to perform his last solo engagement on his own that day ! !

Train station sounds ok to me when I was a kid it was railway station but language changes and evolves we have to move with the times. I think of it as a train station now
It's the same for a radio you'd never use the word wireless now would you but that's what we grew up with saying
If words and phrases didn't evolve our language would still be .....methinks I ll make some haste to my bedchamber with my beau
Got to move with the times

There is a difference between 'fewer than' and 'less than'.
BBC is singular

Well, that's railman told, then.

Is this really about pronunciation or sloppy grammar and neologisms?

"BBC is" is correct. There is only one BBC.

Train station really annoys me. All my childhood we referred to it as The Station. If we meant a bus or coach station then that was what we would call it. Another one is Horse Riding, or even worse, Horseback Riding (what other bit of it would you ride on?) If we rode horses we went Riding, if we rode bicycles we went Cycling. End of - to use another irritating phrase.

I feel they use 'less than' when they mean 'fewer than' and 'BBC is ...'. And why do so many people speak so quickly it is hard to follow them.?

Ooh railman, I too am irritated by train station, it was a railway station all the time that I was growing up. We were asked whether we wanted to leave or remain in the EU on the ballot paper, so where did "Brexit" come from? There was no mention of exit before the vote to leave.