Where was Pavarotti from?

Listening to those insecure English speakers on Sky News you would be confused as to where Luciano Pavarotti was born and is now buried. As these people do their best to adopt more and more AmerEnglish, I have heard that Pavarotti was born in

 

Mo'dinna

Moder'na

Modee'na

and a couple more that I can't remember now.

 

Pavarotti was born etc in Modena and In the old days, Modena used to be known in England as Modena, pron Modee'na.

 

Do these people go to classes to forget how to speak properly? I think it takes a lot of effort to forget how to speak properly. For example, I cannot and probably will never talk about the movies or the box office as I was brought up on films and the cinema. In the old days only Michael Parkinson ever said "The Movies".

 

One thing that's getting my goat at the moment is those inadequates who have learned to say 'neither ... or' instead of the correct 'neither ... nor'. One of the BBC's sports journalists said that a few weeks ago so I wrote to him to point out the error of his ways. The errant journalist replied and said he'd no idea when he'd said it but apologised anyway. It must have been in his script because he said it more than once in the programme he was presenting.

 

Janet Street Porter said neither ... or, too, the other day on a BBC programme about art when she was trying to present the argument that Andy Warhol was better than Michealangelo (or was it Leornardo da Vinci?) Her teeth almost fell out given the haste she was in to tell us that she actually met Warhol once: name dropping was neither needed nor appreciated, madam!

 

I eat neither lard nor meat thank you!

 

DW