Lets negotiate

[tyred]

Can't we just blame the Daily Mail?

 

[swee'pea99]

They probably watched ITV as well.

Worse, some of them spoke with northern accents <shudder>.

 

[ayceejay]

hey listen I live in the only place on earth where the resistance to Ameripron is acceptable, the French can't do a decent 'aitch' either so imagine talking about Herb or an herb where I live.

 

[Beebo]

I've noticed an increasing number of interviewees who begin every answer with "So". Drives me nuts.

That nobber Peston does that.

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

In order to ingratiate myself, I may initiate a negotiation in order to differentiate and thereby circumstantiate the pronunciation of this word. I hope you wouldn't consider me licentiate because I am actually novitiate although I hope to potentiate in order to propitiate and satiate, and hence substantiate your post.

I was just about to say that

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

Americans are terrible at making everything they say sound like a question.
Its creeping into the way Britons speak too.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

hey listen I live in the only place on earth where the resistance to Ameripron is acceptable, the French can't do a decent 'aitch' either so imagine talking about Herb or an herb where I live.

Imagine if you had the given name Herb, and you lived there. Phone conversations would start with "Allo? Erb?".

Which reminds me: I need to work on my French, because that French Alps cycling I did last month just whetted my appetite for more.

 

[Drago]

If someone said negoSEEate and ended it with a high rising terminal my head would probably explode with apoplexy.

 

[SteCenturion]

R kid says "yeah" at the end if every sentence.

I can't stand it, though to be fair his current sentence is 7 years.

 

[winjim]

The High Rising Terminal (or Rising Inflection as it is otherwise known) is a feature of Australian and NZ speech as well. There are conflicting suggestions as to where it originates.... this may be one thing we can't blame on the Merkins entirely - after all, they didn't make Home & Away or Neighbours.

They didn't.


(Hmmm, this joke doesn't really work written down.)

 

[MiK1138]

Or "Englandshire" which I find equally annoying.

I do both of these, but only because i am an uppity scot and i know it annoys the neighbours

 

[MiK1138]

When's the Scotlandshire Parish Council going to sort out the NHS up there? It's getting almost as bad as the NHS in Wales....

Yet still the best performing NHS in the union

 

[MiK1138]

When's the Scotlandshire Parish Council going to sort out the NHS up there? It's getting almost as bad as the NHS in Wales....

On a personal note after breaking my wrist due to MTB stupidity i DIDNT wait long in A&E, DIDNT wait long for surgery and DIDNT wait long for a Physio referal . i leave knocking our wonderful NHS to Scottish Liebour and tRuthless Davidson

 

[Drago]

A-ha!

Unfortunately, the TV and radio is rammed full of politicians at the moment I was silently praying for some politician specific strain of bubonic plague to smite them all when yet another politico popped up on Radio 4 and set my teeth on edge by saying "nego-cee-ate."

I was grumbling into my cornflakes when a minute or two later he used the word again, but this time he slipped and pronounced it properly. Nothing worse than a put-on posh accent.

 

[Sandra6]

My 12 year old daughter said last night "do they send them on a course to learn how to say nego-cee-ate?!"