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The important thing with apostrophe’s is to be consistent. Either use them or dont.
Being consistently wrong wouldn't aid understanding any more than inconsistency.
BBC could/should/would take more care in reading out news bulletins with a better grasp of the ‘Queens’ English.
BBC dropped Queen’s English a long time ago as hardly anyone uses it.
Queen’s English? I thought she was German!
BBC dropped Queen’s English a long time ago as hardly anyone uses it.
One would assume the Queen does.
Do you mean Received Pronunciation?
Well yes ironically it’s not really called Queen’s English.
Even the Queen has changed the way she speaks.
When people from South of the UK instead of saying drawing they stick an extra r after the w and change it to drawing, probably other examples
Are they from the Azores, the Canary Islands, Spain, North Africa?
All of those are south of the UK, and I think you meant to put ‘drawring’, a pronunciation I always associate with the Midlands, as I am from the south-west of England, and we don’t habitually pronounce ’drawing’ like that. Or at least, nobody of my acquaintance who were born down here do either.
Yes, I am being a pedant - suck it up, buttercup. The only thing that does annoy me is ‘can I get…’, but the stable door that horse bolted from was left open far too long ago for there to be any point going and shutting it now.
I wonder idly how people who voice extra letters into 'drawing' to get drawring would pronounce 'withdrawing'. Would that also get the additional R?
Watching tele a few nights ago and a contestant wanted to "bring some theatricality" to the food. I would have thought "theatre" would do. Mind you, it looked more operating than Palladium by the end .
It’s hardly a serious thread really getting to the nub of the cause of the problems in the world today now, is it.
Sometimes a little frippery and nonsense helps calm the overactive brain. Or a bike ride but we don't do that here!
But over the many years of living on this planet I somehow expect a corporation such as the BBC could/should/would take more care in reading out news bulletins with a better grasp of the ‘Queens’ English.
So by 'our' language you actually mean a dialect that the vast majority of the country don't use or in fact understand which, as you confess you don't so how would you know any different?
What's the point in that?
Read the post that sandwich has written above. (waves to sandwich).
Even the Queen has changed the way she speaks.
Yeh, I heard her say 'leave it arrt, ya mappit!" on her visit to the queen vic in east enders.
Clarkson was heavily into "tractoring, Sheeping etc" during Clarksons Farm. I like it 🙂