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That’s true. And the incessant dropping of ‘ly’ in ‘ly’ words, has become rife across the country.
And ‘done’ for ‘did’!
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Stupid little things that bug you
- Thread starter bluemooners09
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And ‘done’ for ‘did’!
Magicpole
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It’s not posh. Dropping ‘h’s and ‘g’s and glottal stopping ‘t’s and ‘tt’s is fine... but replacing ‘th’s with ‘f’s and ‘d’s really does sound unintelligent.
And using the right words stops you sounding vacant in the head cavity.
For example, these Mancunian sentences are perfectly alright;
“will yer stop mitherin’ me with all yer skrikin’, yer doin’ me’ed in, buʔʔin’ in all the time!”
“snot my fault yer taʔer ‘ash is ‘angin’, a waʔ summeʔ else!”
But these two are not;
“av yer saw Dave?”
“Yeah a seen Dave frow dat fing dat went frough de window!”
There’s a difference between local accent and colloquialisms, and sounding like a thick ****.
There are exceptions :)
See yoh laytoh, ya prim and propoh talkin' Manc ****; )
It's Layterz, as in nah man am sweet, layterz right. (the t is not pronounced it is merely there to help understand how to pronounce it)
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laserblue
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Beth Rigby on Sky News is obviously an intelligent woman and is a good reporter/interviewer but her slovenly use of English gets on my nerves to the point where I just can't listen to her any more and have to switch to another news channel. She drops the 'g' on every word with 'ing' in it, Thinkin, discussin, testin, waitin, meaninful, etc. I can just about put up with her saying things like battew (battle) and hospitaw but not dropping g like that.
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Even as a common man with a colloquial accent, I don’t like my news readers to speak with laziness or colloquialisms. I want someone well spoken reading the news.Beth Rigby on Sky News is obviously an intelligent woman and is a good reporter/interviewer but her slovenly use of English gets on my nerves to the point where I just can't listen to her any more and have to switch to another news channel. She drops the 'g' on every word with 'ing' in it, Thinkin, discussing, testin, waitin, meaninful, etc. I can just about put up with her saying things like battew (battle) and hospitaw but not dropping g like that.
Don’t know why, just the way I like it.
If I was the guy on the other end Id hang up. Cant stand being on speaker, ive hung up mid sentance with family members before, as soon as I realised I was on speaker. Now they know better.People walking around having a conversation on facetime, with the other party on speaker! So inconsiderate, rude and unnecessary!
Newman Noggs
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Beth Rigby on Sky News is obviously an intelligent woman and is a good reporter/interviewer but her slovenly use of English gets on my nerves to the point where I just can't listen to her any more and have to switch to another news channel. She drops the 'g' on every word with 'ing' in it, Thinkin, discussin, testin, waitin, meaninful, etc. I can just about put up with her saying things like battew (battle) and hospitaw but not dropping g like that.
Ha ha ! My girlfriend can't stand her for exactly thst reason. I can't watch her because she looks like a bloke.
laserblue
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Ha ha ! My girlfriend can't stand her for exactly thst reason. I can't watch her because she looks like a bloke.
She's a classic example of putting lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig.
Newman Noggs
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Going to concentrate on the canals for the next couple of weeks taking a rare opportunity to fish properly without the boats. Staffs-Worcester tomorrow!
She's a classic example of putting lipstick on a pig and it's still a pig.
But it is a prettier pig, ergh so my mate told me.