The "R" Fever!

Please can someone tell me why most on-air personality mispronounce words all in the name of been phonetically inclined!?

While driving to work, Hubby and I usually listen to the car radio. We have no particular preferred station, so it is usually random listening. In the course of listening to our on-air personalities, I noticed that MOST of them speak with fake accents! If the accent is real, the speech will FLOW without any hitches! I noticed that most of the time, they add “R” or an extra “R” to every word! WHY?

For instance, a word like collection will be pronounced “COLLERCTION”. Another example is the word laptop which becomes LARPTOP when pronounced by some people! Yes! I have heard it on the radio! Other words are:
• Bottle = BORTTLE
• Cup = CURP
• Purse = PURRSE
• Hand = HARND

I could go on and ORN . . . :)

These on-air personalities always pronounce words wrongly, all because of phonetics! They cannot even pronounce Nigerian foods, names and places! Can you imagine? They talk as if they have water in their mouth. I am not saying they should not speak English, but please, speak the thing well! Even the oyinbo wey get the language no they talk like that! Shio!

If investigated, I bet it would be discovered that these so called “accent” ridden people have not been out of the Country! This reminds me of one guy who was all over the place bouncing in his baggy jeans and speaking the “yeah men... yeah men” speech. I actually thought he was born and bred in the USA! You can imagine my shock when I found out that he has never been to the USA! In fact he was just coming from a West African Country! Chei!