BBC Three announcer tonight...

Who is it? Don't recognise the voice...

Stu

Could it be that black bloke with the speech impediment?

I thought that, it sounds like the usual bloke who has been told to calm down a bit!

Not only that but he said The Third Degree was on in half an hour at two different times. You'd think the continuity could be better - it's pre-recorded although the chattier intros lately mean it's not so obvious. BBC Choice's annos used to be really obvious.

Perhaps - I'll have another listen later on.

Cheers
Stu

Oi!

You can't say he's got a speech impediment, that's not politically correct!

Vocally challenged?

Mr Harvey, you of all people should know that I shall never bow down to political correctness.

I would, however, have thought that one of the basic skills of being a 'BBC Announcer' (world famous for excellent delivery and those lovely home counties accents(!) ), was that the person would at least be able to pronounce 'BBC THREE' as just that, and not 'BBC FREE'.

Bad pronounciation from anyone, especially a television announcer is one of my strongest pet hates. I seem to spend my life correcting people on their pronounciations.

Examples:

Envelope was pronounced as 'On-velope' by my mate yesterday

Haverfordwest pronounced as 'Harford-west'. Does it really take that much time to say the 'Haver'?

And the worst thing of all is when people add the word 'like' onto the end of every sentence.

And don't get me started on that Australian fad of changing the inflection of your voice, so every sentence sounds like a question. *shudder*

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Bad pronounciation from anyone, especially a television announcer is one of my strongest pet hates. I seem to spend my life correcting people on their pronounciations.

One of my pet hates is people saying 'pronounciation' when it's 'pronunciation' - but I never spend my life correcting people who say it incorrectly ......................

Well we can reminisce!

Good lord.!!!...what about all those luverrrrrly estuary accents we are treated to now ???... so pleasing to the ear..........

and the 'any regional accent will do as long as its scottish' requirement that all channels seem to be desperate to meet?

Interesting that in the search for regional 'flavour' you never hear a scouser or a brummie or someone with a dorset accent announcing ....!

I can spell, I was typing fast and wasn't really checking my grammar. Although it does somewhat undermine my argument

However, I do KNOW how to pronounce it!