Chris Waddle

[PhilHeathcoc]

When broadcasting on Radio Five Live, why can't Chris Waddle say the word 'penalty'?

He consistently says 'pelanty', but nobody seems to pass comment or correct him.

[andy-hughes]

Some people do have isolated words which they mispronouce, and I think it is polite to just ignore their mispronunciation - unless of course it is Geroge Bush who persisnatnly says "Nu-cu-lar" for "Nuclear", and given the seriousness of the issues he is discussing, and his propensity for war-mongering, he shoiuld be corrected every time he says it, which is far too often!

Far more irritating to me is how ever news reporter on any TV or radio station pronouces the word 'secretary' as 'sec-a-terry', which is patently incorrect - that should be corrected because it is lazy speech, not an impediment.

[PhilHeathcoc]

I agree to some extent, but it's still wrong.

Other annoying words are prodigy pronounced 'progidy' and programme being pronounced 'progam'.

Perhaps I need something to worry about.

[vehelpfulguy]

My son has a disability called Dyspraxia (not Dyslexia) and he has problems saying some words correctly.

He always says "pentalny" when he means penalty.

He plays football computer games on his PS3 and when there is a bad foul he often shouts out "pentalny".

Maybe Waddle has a similar disability or other speech problem.

[4candles]

A friend of mine who was also into radio & electronics just couldn't say 'capacitor' - it always came out as 'capacitator'.

[PhilHeathcoc]

Perhaps in some cases, it is because the individual has an actual disability, as mentioned above.

But sometimes, I think it is because the person is stupid and lazy.

[andy-hughes]

That may be so, but why not err on the side of caution - that way you are either being considerate or pleasant - a win-win I'm sure you'll agree.

[y-cymro]

I'd put this down to him being an ex-footballer and hardly the brightest spark in the fuse-box.

I'll also be stunned the day David Pleat manages to say a foreign footballer's name correctly.

[novalis]

The most annoying for me is the mispronunciation of
(mis)pronunciation. It's "pronounce" as in "ounce" but "pronunciation" as in "nun".

[littleoldme]

LOL y-cymro: I'm sure Pleat does it on purpose - he listens carefully to how everyone else pronounces a name, and then works out how many variations he can come up with during a match. Either that, or he's just pig ignorant. Hmmm...it's a tricky one.

I have trouble pronouncing February correctly - I'm careful not to miss out the middle r and say Feb-YOO-ary, but as a result the second half of the word kind of falls out of my mouth and makes me sound like a dribbling twonk.

[cazzz1975]

he sang "diamond lights" excellently

[bobtheturkey]

david pleat is too busy kerb crawling to pronounce names

[Ric.ror]

Well however he says it at least he is NOT Alan Green