GREEN VERBS POLICE

This reader wants you presenters to pronounce your words properly.

"Where are the green verbs police when you need them to prevent the media audience from being assaulted by the daily barrage of the butchery of standard English and proper diction perpetuated by many errant news announcers?

"I couldn't believe my ears when the female news announcer on C News Update, Wednesday 14 May, 10 p.m. renamed the devastating earthquake hit province of China, Sichuan (phonetic pronunciation: Sish-schwan); "Siewchand."
Maybe she was looking for Mr. Siewchand in China.

"The Yellow Peril"

And we heard this one from a young fella reading the news update on 107.7FM at 3.48pm on Friday. He said Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's daughter Zahara was born in "Eh-thiopia".