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denis567 | 22:11 Mon 09th Jul 2012 | ChatterBank
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I have brought this up before, but why do some people pronounce words like something, nothing and everything with a K at the end, rather than ing.
I was watching the first programme in the new series of 'Secret Dealers' today, and the announcer did this three times.
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Avatar Image boxtops
It's local dialect - why does Ann Robinson persist is saying Five ThousanT
22:11 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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did he do it before all words, or just before words starting with a vowel?
22:13 Mon 09th Jul 2012
Avatar Image starone
Irritating isn't it?
22:13 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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Local dialect? It's nation wide. Everybody's doing it and it drives me mad. People who should know better reading the news on the TV for instance.
22:14 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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innit just!
22:14 Mon 09th Jul 2012
Avatar Image craft1948
I just think it's ignorant.
22:15 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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Even more annoying - is there a single newsreader in Britain who can speak without moving their hands?
22:15 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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I would say it's local dialect/accent. No one in Scotland says it because we say 'nuhin' instead :-)
22:15 Mon 09th Jul 2012
Avatar Image Euphemia
Not in this part of the world.
22:16 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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Oh, sipowicz and I was so careful to put isn't it, so no-one would notice it should be innit.
22:16 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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Who's the Pri Minister, then?
22:16 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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It's not local dialect, it's not recent and to be honest, it's not all that common.
I view it as a speech impedement. I can't say owl without saying owul.
22:17 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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I think it would be very difficult to talk without using your hands to some extent duncer. I know if someone tied mine up I would not be able to express what I was saying. Don't know why.
22:18 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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Must make it difficult for non-English speakers learning the language.
22:19 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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SB1 - I refer to the Phoney Blairisms of insincere hand gesturing and displays of Cameronesque invisible boxes.
22:20 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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I didn't say nothing, instead of, I didn't say anything!
22:20 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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I was like, you know, like sort of, like, so like OMG!!!
22:21 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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There's more:

The second month of the year: Feb-you-worry
The third day of the working week: Wens-dee
A building full of books: lie-bree
The thin blue line: pleece
Wales / whales, weather / whether, witch / which pronounced the same way

Etc
22:23 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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Okay Mark.............it was only a question.
22:23 Mon 09th Jul 2012
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It was like totes amazeballs!! Well jel!

Saying that... I have been known to say amazeballs on occasion =s And koolbeans!
22:25 Mon 09th Jul 2012

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