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Colin Davies
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[I]I know this is going over old ground , but, isn’t it about time that it was explained to some presenters, like Peter Levy of BBC Look North, that the runners are carrying the Olympic Torch not the ’A’lympic torch. And there is an ’H’ in horrific and hospital, the words also are preceded by the letter ’a’ in the context of a hospital not an ’ospital, I wonder how it is written on the tele-prompt.

I am amazed that he is still going, He was a Perma tanned Skeleton in the 70s on that show, Good on Radio Leeds before that with the weather man Paul...(the name escapes me.) His Grammer and Diction were never his strong point Colin. [/I]

You must be referring to Paul Hudson, who is still the weather man at Look North. Or is it Paul ’udson.

However Keeley Donovan & Lisa Gallagher are easier on the eye when they present the weather.

Sexist, I know, but true

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26/06/2012 21:05:44

Colin Hall
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If you want to hear the best "English as she is spoke" then you have to look outside of the UK and away from the BBC because the New Zealand accent has been rated the most attractive and prestigious form of English outside the UK in a BBC survey.

Respondents from throughout the UK completed an online survey rating the prestige and social attractiveness of 34 different English accents.

The kiwi "fush and chups" came seven places ahead of Australia’s "sex and Seedney" - and nine ahead of the American accent in terms of attractiveness.

Scottish and Irish accents topped the list of preferred British accents.

Professor Allan Bell, Director of AUT’s Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication says the high rating for New Zealand English probably reflects the fact that it is relatively close to the prestige British accents.

"On the social side, it seems to represent generally positive British attitudes to New Zealand and New Zealanders."

He says the fact the British rate New Zealand English so highly is ironical, because studies of New Zealanders’ attitudes show they are often very negative about their own accent and prefer British English.New Zealand English rated highly on both attractiveness and prestige.

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26/06/2012 22:43:25

Mike Pass
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Hhhmmm!!!!!

Quoting: Colin Hall
If you want to hear the best "English as she is spoke" then you have to look outside of the UK and away from the BBC because the New Zealand accent has been rated the most attractive and prestigious form of English outside the UK in a BBC survey.

’Fraid not, Colonel!
Unless you are referring simply to the most attractive etc etc..........
The most ’correctly delivered ’English’ has been attributed to the same area of the UK since I was a child and to the best of my research, still is.
That would be Inverness and it’s environs. Accent irrelevant, in general, the spoken English there is considered closest to the textbook than anywhere else in the world. Presumably they are not taught it in school as, for the past couple of decade, the major percentage of our teachers could not pass an 11plus in the three ’r’s’.
Or.....maybe, this lovely part of Scotia somehow manages to grab any competent trainee teacher and hides them away somewhere....who knows??

Damnant quod non intellegunt.

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27/06/2012 07:27:55