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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
North Cardiff Blue
Did a good job as a presenter, sack Lineker keep her on, and save the BBC a fortune!
Beeb should themselves a fortune - ditch Lineker and give her the job. Lineker can host the daily politics show instead...ah no he wont be able to as it requires displayed impartiality
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
I wish she would pronounce the 't' at the end of words.....
One of the worst is Danny Gabbidon who seems completely unable to say a 't'. My two favourites -
Why Harlane - White Hart Lane
Opportunee - opportunity
Difference is he tends to know what he's talking about.
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Crisp White Lines
I blame Neighbours and Home & Away.
They brought in that annoying habit of raising the pitch of your voice at the end of your sentence to turn it into a question?
It does seem to be an Australian thing. I remember quite a few Olympics ago, the Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe was part of a commentary team and his tendency to do this all the time became very annoying.
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
The producers of Soccer Saturday decided that last weekends Stoke v Birmingham match should be analysed by someone who thought the away team was pronounced Berminum.
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Cyncoed Slumdog
One of the worst is Danny Gabbidon who seems completely unable to say a 't'. My two favourites -
Why Harlane - White Hart Lane
Opportunee - opportunity
Difference is he tends to know what he's talking about.
He repeats every sentence though which really bugs me
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Cyncoed Slumdog
One of the worst is Danny Gabbidon who seems completely unable to say a 't'. My two favourites -
Why Harlane - White Hart Lane
Opportunee - opportunity
Difference is he tends to know what he's talking about.
Shouldn’ ha be “alking abou”
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
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 :hide:
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
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 :hide:
I bet your favourite play is Pygmalion and you have My Fair Lady on loop! :wink:
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Citizen's Nephew
I bet your favourite play is Pygmalion and you have My Fair Lady on loop! :wink:
Never seen either, old fruit :-)
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
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 :hide:
Talking about Coronation Street, who’s mentioned in nearly every episode but has never been seen?
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
splott parker
Talking about Coronation Street, who’s mentioned in nearly every episode but has never been seen?
Rover?
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
Never seen either, old fruit :-)
Just joshing. Which is quite an interesting word and I've just read about its origin.
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
splott parker
Talking about Coronation Street, who’s mentioned in nearly every episode but has never been seen?
Willie Eckaslike
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Michael Morris
Willie Eckaslike
:hehe:
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Citizen's Nephew
Just joshing. Which is quite an interesting word and I've just read about its origin.
It's one of those words whose origin is only guessed at but which was in use in the mid-19th century in the States as a verb we are familiar with - and it was not committed to print until a few decades later.
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Michael Morris
Willie Eckaslike
And A. Oop?
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
The Bloop
The producers of Soccer Saturday decided that last weekends Stoke v Birmingham match should be analysed by someone who thought the away team was pronounced Berminum.
Marginally preferable to "BirminGum", IMO
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
The Bloop
The producers of Soccer Saturday decided that last weekends Stoke v Birmingham match should be analysed by someone who thought the away team was pronounced Berminum.
Please stand up Clinton Morrison :-/
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Michael Morris
Willie Eckaslike
:thumbup:That’s the bugger
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
Watched the Klopp interview with Skys Gail Davies yesterday, one of the worst interviewers I have seen, was forever nodding her head
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
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 :hide:
Nieghbours had a attracted a far younger demographic than Coronation Street.
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Citizen's Nephew
I bet your favourite play is Pygmalion and you have My Fair Lady on loop! :wink:
He wrote them.
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
Doesn’t everyone just record MOTD, and fast forward through all the drivel from the “experts” ? :shrug:
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
G rangetown Blue
Doesn’t everyone just record MOTD, and fast forward through all the drivel from the “experts” ? :shrug:
Yes!!
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Re: Alex Scott on Match of the Day
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Originally Posted by
Cyncoed Slumdog
One of the worst is Danny Gabbidon who seems completely unable to say a 't'. My two favourites -
Why Harlane - White Hart Lane
Opportunee - opportunity
Difference is he tends to know what he's talking about.
He sometimes goes a whole sentence without just vowel sounds - no consonants, it's so bad it's funny..