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Terry Carey
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BBC not concentrating

Harking back to Colin’s (Davies) point I’m right with him as I said before but if we’re digressing into the realm of regional British accents many people from Southern England particularly cannot distinguish between any of the Lancashire and Yorkshire varieties. Everyone knows of course that Lanky is far superior.

Any room in your slit trench Scouse??

In my travels as a Salesman I found that no matter where one goes in the UK there are people who speak clearly and those who are barely understandable. The majority fall somewhere between these parameters.

TC.

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29/06/2012 18:38:58

Colin Davies
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Quoting: Murray Whyte
Kirkwood was born Carol MacKellaig in Morar, Invernessshire

I lived a bit north of there for five years, the accent has got to be one of the easiest to understand anywhere that English is spoken, that is Inverness Moray firth, Ross and Cromarty areas.

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29/06/2012 19:17:16

Colin Davies
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I might be being a bit picky here!

On the question of tele-prompt and written grammar, maybe those who do write the scripts are guilty, on the weather this morning Laura Tobin said, "this will lead to an unsettled week of weather", should this not be " a week of unsettled weather" ?

Another regular is "the traffic is slow due to an earlier accident". It should be "an accident earlier", the first statement makes it read as if there has been a second accident.

I know this is being picky, but the BBC used to set the standard, and they worked hard at it.

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