I just heard Anna Botting (Sky News) pronounce it correctly ...she neatly skipped over the 'ar' with barely a hint that it was there
It's similar to something that really annoys me, and is yet another example of younger generations altering speech ..for what end, I don't know, but a few years ago, I noticed them emphasising the middle letters of words where traditionally we've given such letters a soft pronunciation: Gar
den - Car
ton - Bo
ttle, etc.
...but, a more recent trend seems to eliminate 't' from words! - Pho' o (photo), Le' erbox ...or the ad that has a young woman announce that it's easy to pin a twee' on your twi' er page
I did hope that the demise of the dreadful AQI speech affectation was the end of such ridiculous
Do they not get taught speak properly at school any more?
Even the Individual Savings Account brought in by government some years ago, and named as such, became reduced to two syllables within a couple of years with the advent of ISA (Icer) - was it lazy speech, or the financial institutions wanting to claim it as their own rather than a government backed innovation?