Wednesday or Wensday???

[GrumpyGregry]

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.

He of the INCREDIBLY loud voice who wakes me up when my radio is on 90 minutes sleep.

 

[swee'pea99]

Another one that also annoys me is people that pronounce Herbs as Erbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's just an American thing...like the way Irish people always call movies 'fillums'.

 

[MontyVeda]

it's not totally American... us Brits can drop our Aiches too

 

[swee'pea99]

True, but in our case it's lack of breeding, in theirs, it's pukkah Bostonian. I think it's related to the old notion that you need to call it 'an' hotel, 'an' hospital - a sort of quasi colonial cringe to our gallic neighbours, once considered the ultimate 'allmark of all things cultured.