Enunciation

[Goblin]

What about the trend for people to replace "st" with "sht". Such as "shtreet"....

Words ending in "d" sound like "t"....and becomes "aaaant".

Elongating "i" - so like becomes "loike".

We are described as a beautiful, friendly nation... not an intelligent one.

That's John Key for you. I have to change the channel whenever he's on the telly. His pronunciation drives me nuts!

[ManDownUnder]

Like 'Wensday'...

"Feb-ree" - follows "Jan-ree" here in Neuzillan

[Brownbikerbabe]

Would this "bloke hunt" involve a bloke named "Mike Hunt"

[Mully]

When it comes to the weather, never mind the pronunciation, Toni Marsh on 3 is always going on about the 'action' and 'wet bits'. Check it out, there's so much inuendo.

Mmm, yes. Talking about being wet down South, or the Coast taking a pounding. F-F-F-F-F

Anywhoo, I use most of these just to annoy people:
Psgetti (Spaghetti)
Ambleance
Aks (ask)

Any various other "gansta" phases

Example:
Someone asks (akss) you to do something for the second time:
"Aiight, why you got to get all up in my grill?"

For the record, I am whiter than Casper the friendly ghost.

[jrandom]

And pallet and pellet...

You pronounce 'pallet' and 'pellet' differently?

Must be a suvvin fing.

[Badjelly]

And some people pronounce "Marjoribanks" as Marchbanks and "Beauchamp" as Beecham. (They're streets in Wellington BTW.) Oh, but that's the way the English do it, so it's correct.

[Maha]

And 'draws' mixing with 'drawers'

He drawers pictures and keeps them in the set of draws.....

"For Sale: Old oak bedside draws" -Is that some sort of early porno?

(oooh, that's another common one - "For sale: 1969 Boss Mustang, rare car, very sort-after" W.T.F.????)

So will you be buying anyone Flours tomorrow?

[Pixie]

Yes folks forget pronunciation, lets have a crack at enunciation. The art of pronouncing words clearly.

Sitting navel gazing earlier this evening I heard Mark Sainsbury doing a promo for tomorrow nights Close Up. He said... Tomorrow night we go on a "blow cunt". Swear to God that is what I heard. Of course I now am paying attention and watching the video that went with the words. He again said they were going on a "blow cunt", but this time the video showed what he was actually saying was they were going on a "bloke hunt". Every other word was as clear as a bell.

Obviously he had not read through that particular promo until it hit the auto cue in front of him, or he would have clearly said "bloke hunt"

Have you got other examples of a whoopsie moment like this?

You think that's bad.
I know a fellow named Mike Hunt - seriously!
What were his parents thinking?

[Badjelly]

And pallet and pellet

[Maha]

You think that's bad.
I know a fellow named Mike Hunt - seriously!
What were his parents thinking?

Never knew a Mike Hunt or a Wayne Kerr but, at high school there was a bloke called Wayne King....

[Pixie]

I fear poor enunciation as much as new clear weapons.

It's pronounced 'Nukula'

[vifferman]

The difference between spear and spare is lost on many. It's enough to make one feel like a spear prick at a wedding.

Ditto for ear and air. Many times newsreaders will endeavour to tell me that so and so was ear lifted out of a national park. I don't think so.

You don't have chitlings, huh Hitcher?
Moi unglush usn't too bed, as my mother hailed from Oxford, so her cultured vowels influenced the way I spoke. However, the Mutant Spawn have terrible enunciation and pronunciation. It's seemingly impossible for these 7th generation Noo Zilundrs to either tell the difference between different words or to speak them so they are audibly differentiated.

My current frustration is all the professional on TV or the radio who say Feb-you-erry. They're fukn PAID to do ads, read news, etc etc., for goodness sake! It's not that hard people!

[Pixie]

Bugga,you got me started

In modern New Zealand the plural of woman has changed from the correct

wimin to wo-men

[Pixie]

Wow mom, that's what I thought I heard him say too!

Said to her indoors, did he say a "blue cunt"?

We both listened and next time it sounded clearly like he said "blow cunt".

Would have been more interested in his program if it was about what we thought he said! Cheers, John.

I was dissapointed when it wasn't an item about strip clubs in Amsterdam or Patpong Rd

[Pixie]

I challenge anyone to come up with a worse example than the hairy git that is refered to as a 'Weather Ambasador' for the Met Service.

He once said : "Funderclouds form a chimbly for updrafts to carry rain drops high into the atmosphere"