Diction

I'm sorry to go all Daily Mail on you for a minute - but this is something that's really p*ssing me off on (particularly) television news at the moment.

I've taken joy in waking up to Breakfast only to hear Louisa Preston saying "shtudents" and things like that... it's a little thing, some of you might say, but it really irritates me.

There are other words - "negoseeashuns" for example - so does anyone else think it's time particularly younger broadcast journalists were taught how to speak again?

One pronunciation that I particularly loathe is 'Seckatree'. Surely it is secretary? Mark Austin is particularly bad at using it all the time.

Why do people say AXE instead of ASK. It drives me MENTAL!!!!

Someone should axe them why!

"Shtress" is another one - and "nooz" instead of "news".

How else do you say these words?

I can only assume "Stew-dents" and "Neh-go-she-ay-shuns". (she instead of see).

That drives me mad as well, but it's usually pronounced 'Arks'

I've even heard politicians describe themselves as 'Sec-you-tary of State for x', rather than 'Sec-ree-tary'. Either they can't read properly or genuinely can't speak properly!

Yes, Ed Balls is one of those.

The first should be "styoodents" and the second should be "negosheeashuns".

That's what RP is, anyway.

Are you sure, James?

That sounds rather sloppy to me, almost American. They have a habit of pronouncing 'Consortium' as Con-sor-shum', but they're foreign, so allowed to make mistakes.

I have always thought 'Negotiation' should be nego-see-ashun.

This is all getting rather Tumbly!

Quite sure - I've just studied RP for two terms...

In the manner you've written it in your statement following, 'consortium' should be pronounced 'consorseeum' - but it's not!

Not quite diction - be the level of grammar is also dropping. I've lost count of the number of times I've screamed when people have used less instead of fewer or vice versa. I also get quite annoyed when people talk about cheap prices - the goods are cheap, the prices are low.

When it comes to diction - temrature instead of temperature is a bit of a bugbear...