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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.
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
Watched the Klopp interview with Skys Gail Davies yesterday, one of the worst interviewers I have seen, was forever nodding her head
Doesn’t everyone just record MOTD, and fast forward through all the drivel from the “experts” ?