Thirty years ago, the mispronunciation of "negotiate" had established itself in the UK. For no good reason at all, and at odds with everything linked to the English language, people were thinking how clever they were, to say "nego-see-ate" instead of "nego-she-ate".
This is "NOT NEGO-SHE-ABL" and not "NOT NEGO-SEE-ABL"
This development was an unwelcome one, and probably came about because of the well establish variation before then in relation to words with a middle 'c' rather than 't'. Words like "association" were already on the hit list for twats deciding that "asso-see-ashun" was okay, and preferable to "asso-she-ashun". I suppose the justification for this, in the minds of the offenders, was that 'c' offers two possibilities for pronunciation. There is NO justification at all for changing these words, let alone "negotiate".
We are now stuck with extra hissing in our language. The slippery slope has drawn in other examples now. On the radio last week, and not for the first time, I heard the word "initiate" pronounced by a politician (or is that "poli-ti-see-an"?) in a most ludicrous fashion - "ini-see-ate". What the fuck?
Last year on Radio 4 a maths professor demonstrated complete cuntishness by talking about a "ray-see-o" instead of "ray-she-o" [RATIO of course]. This obsession with hissing is in play as well on OFFICIATE, DIFFERENTIATE, APPRECIATE, SPECIES and more.
We now have to endure even more hissing, linked to the "double s" that has for my lifetime necessitated a "shoo" sound in the words "tissue" and "issue". We now have prissy cunts who insist on over emphasising the delivery of another fucking hiss. "Issss-you". What the cunting fuck?
How long before the magazine seller on the street corner calls out "Big Issss-you"? No way would such a cry yield any result from me in terms of a purchase.
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