Wednesday or Wensday???

[MontyVeda]

According to the phonetics in my (collins) dictionary, Wednesday is pronounced wenzdi ... but more often than not on Radio 4, it's pronounced with the 'nes' in the middle.

could it be that radio 4 presenters are a bunch of either un-educated or over-educated twonks, or is my dictionary wrong?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Publicly funded nobbers.

 

[screenman]

Publicly funded nobbers.

Why?

 

[MontyVeda]

Why?

why nobbers or why publicly funded?

that'll be:
a: can't pronounce a common word properly
b: the unique way the bbc is funded

 

[Bollo]

Publicly funded nobbers.

is that pronounced no-ber or nob-ber?

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Unless they're trying to be "street"?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Why?

Nobberism is actively encouraged at the BBC, why I don't know.

 

[Fnaar]

According to the phonetics in my (collins) dictionary, Wednesday is pronounced wenzdi ... but more often than not on Radio 4, it's pronounced with the 'nes' in the middle.

could it be that radio 4 presenters are a bunch of either un-educated or over-educated twonks, or is my dictionary wrong?

There's a whole range of ways it might be realised in different accents, but the normal/nobber split is judged by whether you give it 2 or 3 syllables.
2 is 'street', 3 is for nobbers.

 

[screenman]

Gissa a clue mate, which is right man 2 or 3? which is the original.

 

[MontyVeda]

Gissa a clue mate, which is right man 2 or 3? which is the original.

According to the phonetics in my (collins) dictionary, Wednesday is pronounced wenzdi ...

 

[colly]

February. Most often pronounced.....................Feb-uary.

I say Feb-ru-ary even though it does seem awkward.

I don't know what I do with Wednesday now think about it.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I don't know what I do with Wednesday now think about it.

I try and avoid them, perfectly ghastly!

 

[rich p]

Wensday and Febrewry - like it or lump it

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

There's a radio 4 and world service guy with a really deep voice who would pronounce the extra syllable - Neil Newness, I think, but it's probably Neil Newnes and he's insisted on putting an extra syllable in that too.

EDIT: no, it's Neil Nunes. I rest my case.

 

[Davidc]

I've always pronounced it wed ns dy, and the other one feb rue arry.

Just learned it from my parents so some combination of dev'n 'n 'am'shire I suppose.