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15 July 2010

The BBC: Destroyers of the English Language

Participatory
Normal: PAR-tih-sih-pah-toh-ree
BBC: par-tih-sih-PAY-toh-ree

Regulatory
Normal: REG-yoo-lah-toh-ree
BBC: reg-yoo-LAY-toh-ree
 
Syracuse
Normal: SEE-rah-cue-suh
BBC: SYE-rah-cue-seh

Osaka
Normal: OH-saw-kah
BBC: aw-SAY-kah

There was another one from tonight I can't remember.

And the uniformity of their crappy pronunciation shows an attention and focus upon getting it wrong consistently.

They are awful. They have posh sounding accents but sound remarkably backward when they can't correctly pronounce common english words. 

English is a wonderful language. Who is going to teach it to the English?
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