I pronounce thee
Haven’t had a good CiF rant for what seems like ages:
Maybe I shouldn't have been listening to Woman's Hour in the first place, and then it wouldn't have happened. But that's what I did, and that's how I came to hear presenter Sheila McClennon describe something or someone as "mis-CHIEV-yous"...
More holding-back-the-barbarian-hordes stuff here.
PS: And while we’re being pedantic, this is funny. (Thanks to HH.)
Maybe I shouldn't have been listening to Woman's Hour in the first place, and then it wouldn't have happened. But that's what I did, and that's how I came to hear presenter Sheila McClennon describe something or someone as "mis-CHIEV-yous"...
More holding-back-the-barbarian-hordes stuff here.
PS: And while we’re being pedantic, this is funny. (Thanks to HH.)
Labels: Comment is Free, radio, words
posted by Tim Footman at 11:09 AM
15 Comments:
Are you secretly Beryl Bainbridge? She's always getting her knickers in a twist about this sort of thing.
She calms herself down with a ciggie and a nice plate of egg and chips. I suggest you do likewise.
i'm wiv you on comment is for free Tim.
wv becoss
I must say I mind that sort of thing too but mind less and less people who don't.
I love that Graham Parsons album, Grievious Angel.
Garfer: I’m not BB, I’m her posh, sexy, ginger daughter who was in Grange Hill.
Fanks, Rog.
It’s like people eating KFC opposite me on the bus, Pleite. Can usually pretend it’s not happening, but every now and then...
Geoff: Didn’t he used to be in the Frying Bonito Brothers?
I think she said it intentionally, and was just being impyish.
It's just a Scoticism, like 'pattren' for Eng. pattern or 'thegither' for together or 'swally' for bevvy. Hoots, mon.
And don't get me started on BBC pronunciation. Is it my imagination or is 'no' starting to sound like 'nay'?
What about people making three syllables out of nuclear?
Billy, there has been spelling reform to align words to their altered pronunciation. That word is now spelt 'nukular'.
It never occurred to me that it might be a Scottishism. Maybe that's why I was confused about it. I thought 'outwith' was a perfectly good English word until I used it in a press release once and was told to remove it because there was no such word.
I get the same feeling when people say 'tissues' over-pronouncing the S instead of a 'sh'. I have to run out of the room and block my ears in a silent scream.
Aluminum...grrr. And I've always had problems with the word statue: statchew? Statyou?
Licorish or licorisss? Agh - another horrible sss pronunciation.
It may well be a Scotticism: McClennon is a Scouser, althugh her surname suggests lineage from further north. On the other hand, I went to school in Hampshire, and I remember kids saying mis-CHIEV-i-ous there.
The 'tis-yoo' thing is interesting. 50 years ago that would have been the norm, but now I suspect only Brian Sewell says it. In a few years' time, shed-yool will surely sound as quaint and affected. But liquorice is surely spelled thus (in UK English at least) and pronounced LICK-o-rish, isn't it?
Jesus, I'm turning into Simon Heffer. I'll be complaining about Blue Peter presenters not wearing ties next.
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