Alex Scott on Match of the Day

[North Cardiff Blue]

Did a good job as a presenter, sack Lineker keep her on, and save the BBC a fortune!

[2b2bdoo]

I like her.

[North Cardiff Blue]

I like her.

It worked well a presenter needn't be a top-ex player.

[Joe Gillis]

She's ruined football focus, get the daft bint off the tele

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I wish she would pronounce the 't' at the end of words.....

[North Cardiff Blue]

I wish she would pronounce the 't' at the end of words.....

Agreed but lots of people do that now?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Agreed but lots of people do that now?

And lots of people now put question marks at the end of what seem to be statements

[Moodybluebird]

I wish she would pronounce the 't' at the end of words.....

Are they examples of Glottal Stops or do they only occur in the middle of words, such mo'or or bu'er instead of motor and butter ? As a licence payer I expect a higher vocal standard from my presenters !

[xsnaggle]

Are they examples of Glottal Stops or do they only occur in the middle of words, such mo'or or bu'er instead of motor and butter ? As a licence payer I expect a higher vocal standard from my presenters !

Glotal stops. On the Olympics a girl from Kent worked for me, lovely girl totally incapable of pronouncing words with T. for example she couldn't say I'm going to the O2, she'd say "I'm goin O2" similarly she never went to the West end she'd go "Up west, ( know there T there she couldn't say "to the west end" and if you heard her say 'Up west' it would make you smile.
I have found in my travel though that it seems to be a london/SE thing."

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Glotal stops. On the Olympics a girl from Kent worked for me, lovely girl totally incapable of pronouncing words with T. for example she couldn't say I'm going to the O2, she'd say "I'm goin O2" similarly she never went to the West end she'd go "Up west, ( know there T there she couldn't say "to the west end" and if you heard her say 'Up west' it would make you smile.
I have found in my travel though that it seems to be a london/SE thing."

I think that the glottal stop (or perhaps the glo'al stop) was a feature of Estuarese English (i.e. London and environs) and seems to have expanded nationwide. As for Aussie accents in 'Neighbours' being responsible for the insertion of a question mark (rather than just the raised inflection in the spoken word), that seems a tad fanciful to me. More people have watched Coronation Street and over a longer period but it doesn't seem to have left a national linguistic impression of any kind: nowt really

[Citizen's Nephew]

I think that the glottal stop (or perhaps the glo'al stop) was a feature of Estuarese English (i.e. London and environs) and seems to have expanded nationwide. As for Aussie accents in 'Neighbours' being responsible for the insertion of a question mark (rather than just the raised inflection in the spoken word), that seems a tad fanciful to me. More people have watched Coronation Street and over a longer period but it doesn't seem to have left a national linguistic impression of any kind: nowt really

I bet your favourite play is Pygmalion and you have My Fair Lady on loop!

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I bet your favourite play is Pygmalion and you have My Fair Lady on loop!

Never seen either, old fruit

[Tuerto]

I bet your favourite play is Pygmalion and you have My Fair Lady on loop!

He wrote them.

[splott parker]

I think that the glottal stop (or perhaps the glo'al stop) was a feature of Estuarese English (i.e. London and environs) and seems to have expanded nationwide. As for Aussie accents in 'Neighbours' being responsible for the insertion of a question mark (rather than just the raised inflection in the spoken word), that seems a tad fanciful to me. More people have watched Coronation Street and over a longer period but it doesn't seem to have left a national linguistic impression of any kind: nowt really

Talking about Coronation Street, who’s mentioned in nearly every episode but has never been seen?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Talking about Coronation Street, who’s mentioned in nearly every episode but has never been seen?

Rover?

[Michael Morris]

Talking about Coronation Street, who’s mentioned in nearly every episode but has never been seen?

Willie Eckaslike

[Dave Blue]

Are they examples of Glottal Stops or do they only occur in the middle of words, such mo'or or bu'er instead of motor and butter ? As a licence payer I expect a higher vocal standard from my presenters !

Sky did a preview the other week where the geezer said ‘ever’on. I was disgusted.

[NinianOpinion1927]

She's terrible

[BLUETIT]

She's ruined football focus, get the daft bint off the tele

She's terrible

Agreed

[bobh]

Agreed

seconded

[dml1954]

seconded

Thirded.

[Moodybluebird]

Sky did a preview the other week where the geezer said ‘ever’on. I was disgusted.

Seems like this type of vocal misuse is something that TV heads promote nowadays. Symptomatic of a drop in public standards in general.

[The Bloop]

Years ago she'd have been taught to say 'The water in Majorca doesn't taste quite like it ought to'.

[Bobby Dandruff]

Did a good job as a presenter, sack Lineker keep her on, and save the BBC a fortune!

She is barely adequate as a presenter and quite how people with poor diction get presenting jobs is beyond me.

I can’t believe that she is the best presenter available if Lineker isn’t around.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I used to have an American girlfriend and I used to tease her as to why she (and many, if not most, of Americans) pronounced double 't' in the middle of words as a double 'd'.