Why do TV presenters garble their words?

I AGREE with the complaints about poor pronunciation by TV presenters (Letters). My gripe is those who seem to think the alphabet doesn’t need so many letters and insist on saying ‘impor’n’ and ‘Doc Mar’n’.

Mrs J. M. GRINNELL, Mawgan Porth, Cornwall. RADIO and TV announcers who should know better insist on putting an ‘R’ where it has no business. The biggest culprit is ‘drawRing’. It’s an assault on my ears!

A. B. MEDLEY, Wakefield, W. Yorks. AS A lover of the English language, I’d like to pay my respects to the adverb twice, which sadly has been replaced by the childish phrase two times. A sign of the times, I suppose.

R. MYERS, Doncaster, S. Yorks. MY PET hate is when presenters in science programmes and newsreaders says ‘nukular’ instead of nuclear. There’s only one ‘U’.

KAY JACOBS, Pitsea, Essex. I’D LIKE to highlight the increasing loss of the letters ‘T’ and ‘G’ by TV presenters and in advertisements. Even on the BBC you hear doin’, goin’, wantin’ and showin’.

K. DAVIES, Chester. WHO’S Lauren Order? She’s often mentioned, but I’ve never seen her.

GEOFF OLIVER, Harrogate, N. Yorks.

I CRINGE when I hear ‘I was sat down’ instead of ‘sitting down’.

D. FORD, Doncaster, S. Yorks. MY PET hate is how the word you’re, as in you are, has become your. Come on, all you English teachers, correct your students before you’re replaced.

R. MATTHEWS, Dunkeswell, Devon. WHY pronounce the word sixth as ‘sicth’?

ELAINE HARBURN, Mynydd Isa, Flintshire. WEATHER presenters love to say for the here and now. What’s wrong with today?