Ts

My pet hate is when people pronounce 'th' as a 'f'. He frew the ball; one two free etc. and dropping t's is equally annoying watermeadow

also aitch as haitch!

Oh yes, that one too catladyuk.

When my son was little he used f instead of th. I taught him the difference, showing him where to place his tongue to make the th sound.
Dropping the t from words is, in my opinion, sloppy speech. There is no need for it!

I heard a BBC weather presenter refer several times to the shumid weather during the week.

Catladyuk in Northern Ireland troubles folk had to be very careful with “aitch” and haitch. Aitch pronounciation is Protestant and haitch is Catholic.

catladyuk

also aitch as haitch!

it is haitch in ireland, and some parts of uk.

Oldbat1

Catladyuk in Northern Ireland troubles folk had to be very careful with “aitch” and haitch. Aitch pronounciation is Protestant and haitch is Catholic.

Good grief!

I shall never forget a BBC announcer inviting us to watch Queen Elizabeff's funeral.

Oh yes the 'sh' thing. Carol Vorderman describes things as 'shooj' instead of huge.

Grannynannywanny

I heard a BBC weather presenter refer several times to the shumid weather during the week.

That is my pet hate.

I don't know who the continuity announcer is on BBC but he's guilty of all those transgressions and I find myself shouting at him.

And, btw, Alex Beresford - Wales is pronounced Wayles not Wells!

Alex Beresford may be from the Bristol area. When I moved here, I noticed everybody said Wells for Wales. Very confusing. They also add an "L" on words that don't have it, such as "Good IdeaL", "diarrhoeaL" etc.

If I remember correctly Alex Beresford wife is Welsh and he is learning the Welsh language.

Isn't it all about trying to sound 'down wiv da kids'? Street cred and all that nonsense.

Sparklefizz - that’s so funny - “diarrhoeaL”

No sorry , haitch is unforgivable and marks you out as illiterate. It’s an aspirate’h’.

I was listening to Woman’s Hour and two people being interviewed kept dropping the ‘g’ from words E.g.

Shoppin, walkin, sayin,

I’ve had enough or even enuf of this slovenly language. 😏

Oh, yes, - the added ‘h’ in e.g. shtrong - I’m hearing that a lot lately.
The missing ‘t’ has been ubiquitous for a long time, and I sometimes think the Beeb actually tell presenters to drop Ts on purpose, in case they otherwise - shock horror! - come across as a bit posh.

The Tory MP Steve Brine said we are suffering from 'long Boris'. That must be a new disease!

Febury is my only bugbear ever.

Sueki44

No sorry , haitch is unforgivable and marks you out as illiterate. It’s an aspirate’h’.

I don't say haitch but that's a ridiculous judgement.

I wonder if some of the foolish pronunciation is picked up from Americans speaking.

i wonder if some of these commentators ever consider how this comes across to people who do speak in these ways.
the whole of ireland, illiterate? really?
and much of south london too.
i don't think so.

we have many american readers.
do they all speak foolishly ?