kiloran wrote:richfool wrote:
It's amazing how many people, including TV presenters and even government minister's say: "are country", (or "are something"), rather than "our country".
They're the same people who say yurz instead of years.
And then there's Simon Sebag Montefiore, whose weird accent is so cut-glass that he can't bring himself to pronounce the word Europe. Which is a bit of a disadvantage, considering that so much of his (pretty good) TV stuff has been about what he calls Yurp.
Yurp, to me, is the sound of a yak belching. Or perhaps the sound of an upturned jar of marmalade emptying itself unexpectedly onto the tablecloth? I can only think that his inimitable pronunciation was the psychological scar from having been put through public school with a name like Sebag. Oh god, the pain he must have suffered......
But nobody is in quite the same league as Alice Wobbits, whose Exeter University accent is wholly artificial, and all the funnier for it. She probably uses a kerk berk to kick her fid. And the time when she invited us to lick at a frozen willy mammoth, I nearly fell off the sofa laughing.
BJ