The newsh ish mishpronounced!

WHEN is a boat not a boat? When it’s a ‘boash’.

Sat, 14 Jan, 2006 - 00:00

This kind of pseudo-respectable pronunciation, once the domain of nuns, priests and schoolteachers, has crept like a disease into public broadcasting.

There is not a day that goes by when we are not barraged by mispronounced words on our TV and radio.

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