Countdown

[DTCwordfan]

Have you seen the Rachel replacement, Anne-Marie, today, - she's dressed in a white and red-striped marquee worthy of being from a circus big-top. However what really gets me is the way she pronounces 'H' as in 'Huh-aich.' It's 'huh-orrendous' to listen to.

Any other pronunciations that get to you?

[pat2604]

I really like Ann Marie. A great personality, a great singer and obviously acgood brain if she's doing countdown. It is it a celebrity replacement countdown.

And to answer - cerstificate and probably lots of others.

[barry1010]

I think she is a very beautiful, intelligent woman who sometimes wears very flattering, stylish clothes.

'Discusting' instead of 'disgusting' makes my hackles rise.

[cashier]

I like her, just wish she didn't say haitch. I'm not sure, Pat, that it is the same Ann Marie you speak of. She's not known for being a singer, I think.

[Bazile]

she's fine - leave her alone .

The only thing she needs to do , is to stop saying 'smalls' and 'larges'

God help us when Rachel returns - we wont stop hearing about the baby and the russian

[grumpy01]

Never watch now.Turning it into an hour programme spoilt it.

[Bazile]

^^^
in what way ?

[grumpy01]

When it was half an hour it was just about the quiz.Then the final was longer.Now it is over long with dictionary corner guests plugging books,tv programmes or theatre tours.It used to be a good hour 4 until 5.
First 15 to 1 with William G Stewart, now an hour with “lights out”Toksvig.Then Coundown with Richard Whiteley now with grump Anne Robinson.A shame.

[barry1010]

grumpy, record it and whizz through the bits that bore you

[grumpy01]

Yes could do Barry as it should be about the contestants.

[sunny-dave]

I download it from All4 - runs at about 40mins with minimal adverts and (if you skip the appallingly stilted AR and most guests) takes around 25 mins to watch all the quizzy bits.

It would have been a nightmare this last fortnight without a FF button - Ruby Wax was a shocker and Tim Vine is also astonishingly irritating.

haitch (rather than aitch) is a valid regional and cultural variant - it's pretty much the norm over here in Ireland - it might not be RP, but that doesn't mean it's wrong.

For me, the gear-grinding bit from Anne-Marie is the superfluous 'a' or 'an' in front of every small number ... why??

[cashier]

I didn't say haitch was wrong, I implied it irritated me. I think Tim Vine was irritating last week, was because Ann Robinson interrupted him every time he started to speak and he got a bit fed up with it.