When I was a child, or at least a teen, the network news anchors were the epitome of correct grammar and diction. They spoke beautifully and did not have regional accents. Today that seems to be over. I don't know where I was when the word came down that you no longer had to pronounce t's. As far as I can see, or hear, all of today's anchors say innanet, innavew, Atlannic, winna (the season), romannic, gennel, authennic, etc. ABC even thinks it's own program is called Twenny, Twenny. To them it's not longer "our" language, but "aar" language. And nobody ever pronounces candidates correctly, it's always cannadits. To hear David Muir and others speak, you would think there are no two-syllable words. Today's newcasters add an extra syllable to hundreds of words such as gambelling, sparkelling, grumbelling, and hundreds of other two, and only two, syllable words. Another sad loss is the difference between "a" and "an". As a child we were taught that "an" went before most words that begin with a vowel. Now news reporters say, a apple, a ocean. It sounds terrible. And how do they get away with it? Because nobody notices and nobody cares. Sadly even that Republican pain-in-the-ass William Safire is gone, so there are no arbiters of taste. Too bad because I think, "I was at our nearby beach in the middle of winter, eating an apple and looking out at the setting sun sparkling on the calm Atlantic Ocean." sounds so much better than, "I was at are nearby beach in the middle of winna, eatin' a apple and lookin' out at the settin' sun sparkelling on the calm Atlannic Ocean."
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