The actors on East Enders haven't a clue what the correct accent should be for those living in what we called " The North Thames gas board area" In the London basin usually the vows are pronounced perfectly but the constantents are a nightmare., especially those at the end of a word.
Thank you all! At school we taught to speak English - properly. (This was to enable us to communicate with those unfamiliar with the Norfolk dialect.). Ashume is used to often nowadays I was wondering if somewhere along the way SS is morphing into SH.
My hackles rise at "Febuary" and "libary". It's not as if you get charged for using the right number of rs! Of course, maybe they've all been used up by the people who stick an extra r into "law and order"...
That Dom Littlewood person who does that daytime programme says conshumer rights. My biggest bugbear is some of the younger presenters on programmes such as This Morning interviewing people and asking 'what was you like when you was younger?' or such like. They are on national TV for goodness sake!
I would pronounce the words without the extra 'h'. The interviewee is just being lazy in my view. But I suppose that the most important thing is that he gets his facts right.
I'm not pedantic as a rule - not knowledgeable enough - but I'm listening to You and Yours and there's a bloke being interviewed pronouncing 'consumer' as 'conshumer'. (I'm just waiting to see how he says consumption!) I've long wondered about assume which a lot of people pronounce as ashume. Which is right?