BBC announcer slammed by snooty viewers for pronouncing ‘th’ in words as an ‘f’ while reading National Lottery results
The BBC hit back saying that they have 'different voices to represent the rich diversity of people in the UK'
A BEEB announcer has fallen foul of snooty viewers by pronouncing “th” in words as an “f”.
Russell Evans, who gives updates on forthcoming shows and lottery results, has left several tut-tutting to the Corporation.
His supposed Lotto gaffes included “Funderball” and “two hundred and firty fousand”. And introducing a movie Uninvited, he said: “Our film now on BBC1 is a friller.”
Sarah Morgan sniffed to BBC1’s Points of View: “Listening to the announcer giving lottery results was painful.
“Firty, free and fousand aren’t numbers I’ve ever heard of.”
Tony Lewis added: “I’ve watched a friller, been told about programmes on BBC Free and Radio Free and had time checks for free-firty. I’m for free speech, but can people speak properly?”
But chiefs backed Russell, who has also been on urban music station Radio 1Xtra. They told the show:
“BBC1 has different voices and accents to represent the rich diversity of people in the UK.”
York University language expert Prof Paul Kerswill added: “It’s part of a London accent and has been around for maybe 200 years. I don’t think it matters at all.”
The Fings He Said...
- Funderball
- Firteen
- Firty-free
- Firty-five
- Two hundred and firty fousand
- Friller
