As a drinker of bourbon and an eater of bourbon biscuits it can get a bit tricky ...

Bur-bon for a drink .. boor-bon for a biccie

What is a fake twitter account?

I find twitter a bit discombobulating what with the hash tags@ whatever.
Bad enough navigating that and understanding who is saying what to whom let alone set up an account in someone elses name.

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Yes, now you point that out, I think you're right. Except that would make him say "burbun" whereas he says "Burrban"? The mystery deepens!


It was the most interesting part of the today's show I thought!


That's how I've always said it too.


O'Brien was using bourbons in an analogy to explain why, as he put it, a caller's question on Mystery Hour was "stupid". The caller wanted to know why humans "don't have eyes like tigers" and O'Brien responded by saying "That's like asking for a burrban in a packet of custard creams".


Thanks g-s, I've heard both of those pronunciations used before. But burrban may be a new one. Sounds like Brianspeak to me!

If only James had used jammie dodgers in his analogy...

Mispronunciation of words is not unusual for O'Brian > Irish brogue, et al.
Often in the past when J O'B has discovered a new word he gets it totally wrong, putting forward his own Brien-esque version.

O.T. I had some clients with a thick brogue who'd come down from Ireland recently. I hardly understood a word they were saying , so tried to say Yes/No in the right places.

What was the concensus on that one gs?
I would say Marleybone Road.

I am confused, Nick Ferrari seems to have made two completely opposite comments regarding the number of black people shot by police in the USA. He firstly said that more white people than black were shot and later said that black people were six times more likely to be shot than white people - did I hear this correctly?

I think it's down to percentages.

Morning all.

Oh don't! We don't want to go through that again!!

Lady caller said that the KKK had infiltrated police departments in the US.
NF wasn't sure how valid a claim this was and neither was I but a quick Google give lots of reputable sources including FBI reports saying that the KKK and other while supremist groups have infiltrated the police at all levels.

Ohhhh g-s, we can't let Bangla go around saying Marleybone when we all know that it's Marry-ler-bone!

As an immigrant to the London area I am keen to integrate and not sound like I am fresh from the badlands. All advice in pronouncing your strange place names would be appreciated!
Was some confusion one time when I pronounced Isleworth as aisleworth.

Thanks, think I'm getting it now

We don't have the monopoly of strange place names.
What about Kircudbrightshire?

This made me smile, as Darren Adam gets these Sassenach pronunciations wrong all the time! 'Bournemouth' springs to mind. ('mouth' as in what those implant dentists will insert their fixed teeth into ).
Mind you, Southerners almost always pronounce 'Kirkcaldy' (for example) incorrectly as well!
Funny old world...
p.s. The majority of LBC commentators also mispronounce 'Michigan' and 'Qatar'.

Marie La Bonne
Ça va, La Reine Vierge?

Good show from Ferrari this morning. Kept updating listeners on the latest on the Dallas story and discussed some other interesting topics. It's up to Nick to fly the Brexit flag at the moment with many of the other presenters still moaning and whingeing about it so I'm glad that Nick found some time to cover the story on the markets rallying.

10.05am: O'Brien has described his own monologues as "interminable".

10.07am: "Hit the numbers now, you will get through".

Technically I'm a Southerner having spent most of my life south of the border.However I was born in Scotland and, for my first 8 years, lived near Kircoddy.

Dear J O'B - carousing is pronounced as it's spelled, not caroosing.

He's already mispronounced 'carousing'.
I get the impression he's read more than he has listened - except, perhaps, to his internal monologue.

Snap!

I find David Mellor's pronunciation of many words very odd.

In LBC news, a wild Lynx is still on the loose in Devon having chewed through the bars of its enclosure. Just imagine being in that locality calling in your cat late at night, then coming face to face with that? More than a Bourbon needed?

Dont know hoe JOB can assume that every "leaver" was calling Cameron a "Liar", how does he justify this?