[BITList] English as she is spoken

[John Feltham]

G'day Mike,

On 28/05/2013, at 22:53 PM, M.j. Feltham <ismay at mjfeltham.plus.com> wrote:

> As I was coming home I heard on Radio4, the One O'clock News, when talking about the number of people climbing Mt. Everest, the word "Summitted" referring to the number of people who climbed upto the Summit.
> 
> Fortunately it wasn't the BBC news reporter who came out with this word !  But he was an English speaker !

No better than the UK commentators on the various Grand Prix broadcasts….  "Joe Bloggs will podium at the end of the race."

I even hear Brit news readers pronouncing the word 'manufacture' - as 'mannerfacture'. 

As Bluebottle might exclaim "Cringe!"



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