In the good old days

This is the latest in an occasional series of practice Bonkers Old Woman in Purple Dress Posts. Tonight I've been provoked by a young man on the British Broadcasting Corporation wireless broadcast service, clearly ignorant, attempting to pronounce the name of a Pacific island nation state and coming out with Thai-hiti. Thankfully he made no attempt at Tahiti's capital; we might still be attempting to divine the place to which he was making reference.

Oh dear, oh dear.

In the good old days The BBC employed an army of young men (and women before they married and retired to keep house and raise children) who developed, supplied and policed correct pronunciation in virtually every conceivable language.

Those were the days.

PS: I gave this wanker the benefit of the doubt, thinking he might realise the mistake and correct himself at the first opportunity. He's just repeated Thai-hiti so me, I name names. This tosser's name is Tim Lovegodjoy, for the record. To add to the general ignominy in which he seems to determined to cloak himself he's just responded "who?" to his colleague's "Vanuatu". However much this man's paid is too much of my tax and licence fee.