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[PhilaLady1]

Remember the host that intentionally mispronounced gaucho pants as groucho pants multiple times because she thought she was certain that she was correct and that the vendor was saying it wrong ?  

[trenet]

It would be nice if they learned before they went on air.  Or reminded, if necessary, by the director through their earpiece. 

However, some are just so funny.  

The “Groucho” pants made me picture the models wearing them have the glasses and big black mustache and have the duck drop down. “Say the secret word” 

[RealtyGal2]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Who do you think is going to rush onto the set and intervene?  Language police?  A college professor?  Someone from the state department?  Calm down, it's going to be okay.

It is the host's job to communicate so I don't think it is unreasonable to expect them to properly pronounce words and names of products. I understand some of the hosts have accents, but they need to work on sounding more mainstream, like the actors and actresses that are from England and Australia that shock us when they are on talk shows because we had no idea that they had accents. Sharon Fatsch, for example, had a strong accent when she started at QVC and you would never know it now. I don't think it is too much to ask when they communicate for a living.

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[Suziqzee]

I have to say, the "bu'en" and "co'en" (button and cotton) with the very strong glottal catch in the middle does drive me to distraction, but, I personally don't pronounce the "tt" in the middle of these words, nor do I know anyone who does. In fact, if someone happens to emphasize that "tt" sound, I think they're trying too hard or are uptight, ha ha.

It's similar to when some hosts will emphasize the "d" in the phrase "branD" new, which I also find distracting. To me, overpronunciation is almost as bad as bad pronunciation.

I think we are accustomed to a television culture which has, throughout the years, tried to promote a generic dialect, devoid of any regional accents, or, in technical terms, "Standard American English"

I live in New England, but I wasn't born here, and while I've gotten used to the strong "Bah-ston" accent, I would imagine people would struggle if a host spoke like that for hours at a time. Here in Rhode Island, our current governor did a campaign ad and actually said, "from the beginnin," lacking the obvious "ing" at the end of the word, which was GLARING to my husband and me. Every time we heard the commercial, we couldn't imagine such a person could run for office and were shocked when she got elected, LOL, but that is, (unfortunately) the accepted regional dialect up here.  We've learned to adjust, but it used to make our ears bleed.

It's not something to lose sleep over, but those of us who are linguistic purists do have a challenging lot in life, sometimes. I know this gets repeated all too often here, but I've just learned to change the channel.

[Big Sister]

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@insomniac2 wrote:

I agree with the OP. Displaying ignorance. . .Is there no one in the QVC world who's taken a bit of high school French?

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Or, high school English! 

[forsythia1]

It's sad that so many people have such a poor grasp of spelling, grammar and correct pronunciations.

Do they not care how ignorant they look?

[jackthebear]

I think that if you are selling anything, perfume to computers, a salesperson should familiarize themselves with the correct way to say term they don't know.

It is obvious that after watching this channel that Mgt doesn't have an interest in  this  

[BalletBabe]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Who do you think is going to rush onto the set and intervene?  Language police?  A college professor?  Someone from the state department?  Calm down, it's going to be okay.

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LOLOLOL @Kachina624

[Moonchilde]

The English language is butchered daily on these forums on a continuing basis by the posters.  I think maybe if everyone had an educated grasp of their own language, then maybe we could address the mispronunciation of non-English words. 

[cbrite]

I'm not saying how I pronounced the word "ciao".............for 5 years.

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.............I have a difficult time reading some things all over when they use YOUR.... it confuses the sentence meaning.... You're = you are  // Your= Your car // and then there is

their / they're / there.............not just here but even the news articles....but I don't mind as many are trying so darn hard and from other countries.