Extreme enunciation irritation
Do you think that the prats (updated to add: BBC newsreaders in particular) who pronounce the word "sexual" as "Seksual", also pronounce "usual" as "U-sual"? And "sensual" as "sens-yual" and so on. If they don't, they bleddy well should, just to be consistent in their extreme annoyingness (to coin a word?).
One of my pettest of peeves, I think.
"Sek-sual" indeed. Effing idiots.
4 comments:
LOL! My Grandma couldn't pronounce the letter "Z" - she used to say "jip" for "zip" and "jero" for "zero" and "jeebra" and so on...
Oh no, no, Anu - i wasn't making fun of those who genuinely can't pronounce certain sounds! I'd been listening to BBC newsreaders - it's a stylistic thing, you see!
Aah. I know what you mean. You know what bugs me more - it's the desis putting on fake American accents!
ESPECIALLY when the accent slips! :D
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