Soldato
There's a man on BBC who does the voice that links programmes and tells us what's on later. He's very pleasant sounding, however, he speaks like this. A couple of examples I recall. "At 8pm there's Race Across The World over on 'f'ree. (Three)"
Or "Great British Railways on four in 'a' (an) hour"
The guy is a professional voice on nationwide tv and doesn't know how to say three and an.
This might sound like I'm the grammar police but how does this encourage an already pretty bad speaking population to speak well? Is it going to slip further so that eventually we'll hear "At 10 o'clock like, Newsnight will be on, innit."
Or "Great British Railways on four in 'a' (an) hour"
The guy is a professional voice on nationwide tv and doesn't know how to say three and an.
This might sound like I'm the grammar police but how does this encourage an already pretty bad speaking population to speak well? Is it going to slip further so that eventually we'll hear "At 10 o'clock like, Newsnight will be on, innit."