Fiftyyearsandcounting
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Being of the older generation, it irritates me to hear people pronouncing "Twenty" as "Twenny", even my own kids keep saying it, however, I accept that it's now prevalent within the younger generations. I do get particularly annoyed though with TV and radio presenters who are supposed to uphold "The King's English" but have slipped into this mode of speaking. Just listen to the BBC presenters doing the Olympics.Newsreaders or presenters who are obviously British, not pronouncing words properly. This morning on BBC Breakfast, one of the women was interviewing a fella from OfWat, when she asked him a question about how things could be made ‘bedder’. I found myself shouting at the television saying bedder has a double t. When the fella replied he answered the question including the word better and pronounced it properly. Speak properly.
Horror of horrors, Sophie Raworth used the "T" word on News at 10. All hope has now gone!