[kictanet] Declining English grammar in our Newsprint

[S.M. Muraya]

Many of us sound / speak "Kenyan" but when need be we can "sound" British...

This helps...

Improve Your Pronunciation with BBC Learning English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdRmGvmeY1U



On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:58 AM, waudo siganga <emailsignet at mailcan.com>wrote:

> Thanks for bringing this out Bw PS. The TV stations also need to do
> something about poor English pronounciations by some of their
> newsreaders. It is common to hear, for example, "wrecked havoc" instead
> of "wreaked havoc". Other simple words such as "cap" for the kofia which
> is supposed to be pronounced same as "cup" is instead pronounced "cape"
> as in sheng. Another example is "liaise" which phonetically should be
> pronounced li-ye-z but the newsreaders seem to have other ideas. There
> are millions of examples, so to speak. The worst part is that listeners
> and school children pick up these wrong prounciations and everything
> gets propagated. In the age of ICT perhaps someone can point out to the
> newsreaders that there are websites (e.g. Dictionary.com) that can help
> them with prounciation.
>
> Waudo
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 8:11 PM, bitange at jambo.co.ke wrote:
> > All of today's newspapers had several grammatical errors.  At this time
> > and age of ICT, is it not too embarrasing to have such errors?  We have
> > thousands of English majors without jobs.  It is time for media to be
> > thorough in what they do by utilizing our many graduates without jobs.
> > As a Kenyan I get embarrased to see such errors.
> >
> > Ndemo.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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