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As if that weren’t bad enough, they managed to mess up the pronunciation a second time. After Dent’s initial mistake, host Nick Hewson stepped in to confidently inform her that it was actually pronounced “slither”.
http://vine.co/v/5BpPFKruiQW
Time to send them off to Irish college, we think.
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Monday 25 November, 2024
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Countdown made an absolute hames of pronouncing the word 'sliotar' earlier
EVERY SO OFTEN, Channel 4′s Countdown throws up a gem. Sometimes it’s a bold word and sometimes it’s a word that you haven’t heard in a while.
Today it was ‘sliotar’.
When the following letters came up…
A contestant named Conrad managed to get a good seven-letter word: sliotar. Nice work, Conrad.
Unfortunately when it came to explaining it to British viewers, Susie Dent made an absolute hames of pronouncing it.
http://vine.co/v/5Bpphqt0rPA
SLEE-OH-TAR.
Oh Susie.
Needless to say, the error did not go unnoticed.
As if that weren’t bad enough, they managed to mess up the pronunciation a second time. After Dent’s initial mistake, host Nick Hewson stepped in to confidently inform her that it was actually pronounced “slither”.
http://vine.co/v/5BpPFKruiQW
Time to send them off to Irish college, we think.
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