I am totally supportive of teachers, but I must ask this question: Do they teach students diction anymore? It is driving me mad that the words shouldn't, wouldn't, couldn't, and didn't are no longer properly enunciated by many young people and a few older ones. I constantly hear shoonent, woonent, coonent and dinnent, which sounds horrible to me. Where did this begin? With the Valley Girl accent?
Right now on the TV is a teen who managed to get Billy Idol to sing at his birthday party. He's a smart kid, yet he keeps saying dinnent instead of didn't. Why?
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