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« Reply #12150 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 06:52:44 »

I heard a BBC late night TV News Reader says axs instead of ask a while back :O

Believe it or not, that is (arguably) the correct pronunciation!

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Metathesis is responsible for some common speech errors, such as children acquiring spaghetti as pasketti. The pronunciation /ˈęsk/ for ask, now considered standard, descends from a northern version of the verb that in most midland and southern texts through the 1500s was spelled with "x" or "cs", showing pronunciation as /ˈęks/. Chaucer, Caxton, and the Coverdale Bible use "ax"; Shakespeare and the King James Bible have "ask".
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« Reply #12151 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 08:51:45 »

Why the hell do you all listen to Radio 1?
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« Reply #12152 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 08:53:17 »

Why the hell do you all listen to Radio 1?

I thought that too! I have never heard of half the people on the last few pages however.
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« Reply #12153 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 08:59:33 »

I stopped listening to Radio 1 around the time Chris Evans left.  But then I am old.
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« Reply #12154 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 10:56:48 »

I last listened to radio 1 when DLT did his hairy monster show.
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« Reply #12155 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 11:17:13 »

I listen to radio 1 in my van because its either that, Steve Wright (he's the uber-cunt), Richard Bacon on Radio 5live (he's a cunt too, and really annoys me by repeating what he thinks is the important part of a sentence twice. really fucks me off), or radio with adverts which I despise. As soon as 5pm rolls around its on to Radio 2 for Simon Mayo, although Greg James isn't too awful.
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« Reply #12156 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 11:37:52 »

I listen to radio 1 in my van because its either that, Steve Wright (he's the uber-cunt), Richard Bacon on Radio 5live (he's a cunt too, and really annoys me by repeating what he thinks is the important part of a sentence twice. really fucks me off), or radio with adverts which I despise. As soon as 5pm rolls around its on to Radio 2 for Simon Mayo, although Greg James isn't too awful.

If we are moving on to fivelive can I add...

Nicky Campbell - Idiot.
Victoria Derbyshire - Sanctimonious idiot
Richard Bacon - the real life Alan Partridge

However Peter Allen is the true king of Radio!
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« Reply #12157 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 11:38:44 »

Peter Allen and Simon Mayo should just broadcast 24 hours a day on all stations. Steve Wright can do Sunday Love Songs to give them a break.
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« Reply #12158 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 11:40:46 »

Peter Allen and Simon Mayo should just broadcast 24 hours a day on all stations. Steve Wright can do Sunday Love Songs to give them a break.

I quite like Mayo and Kermode doing the films, however the guy who stands in occassionally (is it Nigel Floyd) just spends two hours desparately trying to show how much more he knows about film than you do.
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« Reply #12159 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 11:43:51 »

Seems to be Zoe Ball and James King as stand ins now.  Always depressing when they are not doing it. 
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« Reply #12160 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 11:48:21 »

Hello to Jason Isaacs.
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« Reply #12161 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 12:01:46 »


My boss keeps telling me he as 'pacific' things for me to do...

A work colleague of mine uses the expression "by enlarge" - when generalising about something.. I was never quite sure that I wasn't mis-hearing it until I saw it in email..
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« Reply #12162 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 12:03:26 »

Seems to be Zoe Ball and James King as stand ins now.  Always depressing when they are not doing it.  

At least they have somekind of engagement, Floyd just whines about anything mainstream and references stuff he thinks will make him appear intelligent.
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« Reply #12163 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 12:19:28 »

I listen to them new fangled CD things or my iPod.

I had a hire car with a digital radio which was great as I could listen to 6Music.
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« Reply #12164 on: Friday, June 7, 2013, 12:26:14 »

A work colleague of mine uses the expression "by enlarge" - when generalising about something.. I was never quite sure that I wasn't mis-hearing it until I saw it in email..

Paul Sturrock twice came out with this one:
"Football swings in roundabouts sometimes"
"We got a win against Tranmere when perhaps a draw was the right result, so it swings in roundabouts."

It's and Paul, not in. "Swings and roundabouts". How can you manage Swindon and not know your roundabout idioms?  Roll Eyes
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