The trend to pronounce S as Z

Skunkworks

Skunkworks

Skunkworks

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This is a pretty trivial thing, and doesn’t really bother me, but it’s starting to happen more and more.

Examples
  1. This evening during the news at 10 on BBC1, the newsreader was referring to the Garry Glitter case when she said “Dizgusting”.
  2. During the run up to invading Iraq, Tony Blair repeatedly said “Dizarm”.
  3. Whilst chatting to a friend the other day, he said “Solizitor”.
There are a couple of other instances I’ve heard, but I can’t remember what they are right now.

Has anyone else noticed this? Did I miss a meating?
 
Skunkworks said:
This is a pretty trivial thing, and doesn’t really bother me, but it’s starting to happen more and more.

Examples
  1. This evening during the news at 10 on BBC1, the newsreader was referring to the Garry Glitter case when she said “Dizgusting”.
  2. During the run up to invading Iraq, Tony Blair repeatedly said “Dizarm”.
  3. Whilst chatting to a friend the other day, he said “Solizitor”.
There are a couple of other instances I’ve heard, but I can’t remember what they are right now.

Has anyone else noticed this? Did I miss a meating?
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Looks like I missed the meeting and the actualisation - I haven't noticed anything :/ :) To be fair though, first I'd have to start listening to what people actually have to say ;) :p :)
 
The English can't pronounce a lot of words in their own language :p
Usually things with the letter R, eg. most English pronounce 'door' as 'daw' (only one example out of millions of possible words)
 
Amleto said:
Looks like I missed the meeting and the actualisation - I haven't noticed anything :/ :) To be fair though, first I'd have to start listening to what people actually have to say ;) :p :)
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Trust me, it like Beadle's fingers. Once it's pointed out to you, you'll notice it all the time.
 
Chronos-X said:
My dad pronounces tissues as "tiss-yous" which gets right up my starfish.
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whats wrong with that? if they wanted it to pronounce the other way they should have spelt it "tishoos" or something :p
 
Phantom said:
As Roy Walker used to say... "Say what you see"
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Say what you see...if you see it say it. It's fast, it's furious...it's the ready money round. It's good but it's not right.

Roy Walker = Legend

He can also pronounce words properly with is legendary Portadown gameshow host accent.
 
Chronos-X said:
My dad pronounces tissues as "tiss-yous" which gets right up my starfish.
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You have a starfish :eek: :p

Mum says sugar like shoe-gar. Im all always correcting her :mad:
 
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