Pronunciation of Total

[Unicorn]

Minor gripe but is it just me who gets annoyed when every BBC report on the strikers says the company name is Totaaaal because it ez French owned.

Why can't they say Total properly. Will every firm in the news now be checked for it's ownership and pronounced in an accent suitable for the owning country ?

[Churchill]

Minor gripe but is it just me who gets annoyed when every BBC report on the strikers says the company name is Totaaaal because it ez French owned.

Why can't they say Total properly. Will every firm in the news now be checked for it's ownership and pronounced in an accent suitable for the owning country ?

WHS++;

Also, "Monsieur Saaaarkoooooozeeeeee" is another one that gets on my tits!

If you're French then fine but otherwise it's rather pretentious, n'est-ce pas?

The old "Milky Bar" adverts used to pronounce "Nestlé's" as Nessels, now they've gone all la di da Gunner Graham and it's NestLay!!!

[Unicorn]

and I've just seen...

EO's post SQL Problem from earlier today.

It's not just me then.

[Drewster]

Quite right Unicorn - My pet hates:

Morgan Tsvangirai pronounced CHANGARI - Its spelt T-S-V-A etc because it is a bl**dy African name (probably Zulu) that cannot be directly translated to English - So it is "translated/approximated" phonetically.....

Beijing - We have called it bl**dy Peking for 100s of years because we Brits can't get our heads round the million and one "ch" type sounds used by the Chinese. No one trys to pronounce other foreign places in "foreign" (well except pretentious w*nkers)

Paris is Paris not Paree

Munich, Rome, etc etc etc.

[Churchill]

Quite right Unicorn - My pet hates:

Morgan Tsvangirai pronounced CHANGARI - Its spelt T-S-V-A etc because it is a bl**dy African name (probably Zulu) that cannot be directly translated to English - So it is "translated/approximated" phonetically.....

Beijing - We have called it bl**dy Peking for 100s of years because we Brits can't get our heads round the million and one "ch" type sounds used by the Chinese. No one trys to pronounce other foreign places in "foreign" (well except pretentious winkers)

Paris is Paris not Paree

Munich, Rome, etc etc etc.

How would you pronounce "Lieutenant"?

[Unicorn]

How would you pronounce "Lieutenant"?

Sir (assuming you're a lower rank)

[oracleslave]

How would you pronounce "Lieutenant"?

left tennant.

'orrible stuff

[Drewster]

How would you pronounce "Lieutenant"?

I would pronounce it "Leftenant"........... Why?

[Churchill]

How would you pronounce "Lieutenant"?

I would pronounce it "Leftenant"........... Why?

Why when it isn't spelt that way?

(You do see where I'm going with this, don't you?)

Morgan Tsvangirai pronounced CHANGARI - Its spelt T-S-V-A etc because it is a bl**dy African name (probably Zulu) that cannot be directly translated to English - So it is "translated/approximated" phonetically.....

[wobbegong]

Quite right Unicorn - My pet hates:

Morgan Tsvangirai pronounced CHANGARI - Its spelt T-S-V-A etc because it is a bl**dy African name (probably Zulu) that cannot be directly translated to English - So it is "translated/approximated" phonetically.....

Beijing - We have called it bl**dy Peking for 100s of years because we Brits can't get our heads round the million and one "ch" type sounds used by the Chinese. No one trys to pronounce other foreign places in "foreign" (well except pretentious winkers)

Paris is Paris not Paree

Munich, Rome, etc etc etc.

It all started with that bloody newsreader on the Big Breakfast (Phil somebody) saying "Newcassel" instead of "Newcarsel". It just caught on amongst journalist types.