Is the standard of spoken English declining?

WHILE there are many accents, is it really snobbery to insist that presenters pronounce all the letters in a word?

JOHN PARTRIDGE, Maulden, Beds.

REGIONAL accents are here to stay on TV, but sadly so are the appalling phrases that have crept into our language, such as starting a conversation with ‘I’m like’.

IAN FULLER, Harrogate, N. Yorks.

REMOVE the word ‘like’ and the average millennial female would be unable to string a sentence together.

RICHARD WARE, Gillingham, Dorset.

IS ANYTHING more annoying than BBC presenters pronouncing ‘off ’ as ‘auf ’? That can really tick one auf.

DAVID CRUMPTON, Liverpool.

THERE have been complaints about TV presenters who don’t pronounce the letter ‘g’ at the end of a word.

I’ve been surprised to hear an academic interviewed on BBC News say ‘li’el’ and ‘ba’el’ instead of little and battle. Another professor managed to get ‘erm’ into every sentence. Thought I’d le’ you know ’ow some people are — erm — speakin’ these days!

WILLIAM THORNE, Ilkley, W. Yorks.

IT’S not only the letter ‘g’ that’s gone missing. ‘Th’ is pronounced ‘eff’ as in ‘fink’ for think. And what’s happened to the word twice? It’s been replaced by two times.

JOHN SADLER, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset.

DID I miss the directive that the word ‘to’ is pronounced ‘ter’, as demonstrated by the Prime Minister?

FRANK COWEN, Timperley, Cheshire.

WHERE can I trade in my out-of-date reference books for modern versions?

Mine all spell the word absolutely with a ‘b’ though nearly everyone pronounces it with a ‘p’.

DAVID SUTTON, Wokingham, Berks.

WHY do we have outages instead of power cuts? I wince when I hear empowered, cancelled and ‘skeduled’.

ANN BRADY, Hastings, E. Sussex.

WE DON’T ask any more, we reach out.

ELAINE COMMON, Hornchurch, Essex.

WHY are so many people impacted rather than affected?

ANTONY DEAN, Keighley, W. Yorks.

IT’S incredibly incredible how everything is incredible these days.

DAVID LEAKE, Shavington, Cheshire.

I THOUGHT I’ve had a fairly mundane life, but apparently I’ve been on a journey.

G. BUSBY, Corby, Northants.