Sometimes Lily Allen says it all better than I can (not for those who are sensitive about language):
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If you really want to rub it in, just don’t mention the ‘Lord’ bit.
I don’t. To any of ’em.
Starmer is just ‘Kier’ to me.
When they bleed, their blood is the same colour of ours you know?
I don’t recognise the apparatus of repression that we have in this country.
I commented earlier on this story and left a youtube link: https://youtu.be/tLRGjBDRsto
It seems to me that this is about someone who has worked ahrd and earnt their place in sport and as a presenter. In contrast, she is being goaded by a man who scraped into government by the backdoor in 2007 and who fails absolutely to observe the basic principles that a peer of the realm acts with kindness and consideration and thinks before he speaks. Given the amount of airtime and newspaper coverage he has monopolised this morning to clarify his opinion, it is clear he did not think before he made the remarks about Alex Scott MBE. More than that, his attempt to make a distinction between elocution and accent is spurious and his efforts to pass the buck and claim that Alex has played the class card are fr
ankly beneath contempt. What a thoughtless and completely unworthy plonker. Professor Tim Wilson
Alex Scott was a really good footballer – and I watched her plenty enough to know that
She is an eloquent presenter
Digby Jones is, well the word that comes to mind is a dick
I’d rather have some dropped g’s than a silver-spoon.
🙂
He’s wrong about pronunciation anyway. Pronouncing the ‘g’ in ‘ing’ is characteristic of certain British urban dialects e.g. Birmingham or Liverpool. Simply dropping the ‘g’ is characteristic of East London and some other dialects. Received pronunciation uses the voiced velar nasal, also known as agma. You can hear it in the word ‘singing’ here:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/singing
I wonder if Lord Digby Jones needed a ‘g’ in ‘dieting’
Ow…..
I wonder what Digby has to say about the estuary English of his current Home Secretary?
I’m no snob and I’m proud of East Midlands accent and its hard ‘a’s, but to hear that woman talkin’ at the dispatch box is drivin’ me crazy guv – innit?!
Mebbe we should just drop the ‘g’ in Digby and call him Lord Dibby from now on?