Channel surfing just now - landed on QVC for the first time since I last calculated the donkey's age. Caught a new-ish presenter, Laura Fleming. Full of enthusiasm, as you'd expect, but as she approached climax over the Danni Minogue range of petite fashions, she kept telling us that she was so "exci'ed" and that the product range was so"exci'ing". Three or four times in the first couple of sentences you could hear the letter "t" hit the floor before being used.
I admit, I'm an old fuddy-duddy when it comes to speaking proper - you can tell because only people of a certain age use the phrase "fuddy duddy" - but surely even the tat-peddlers of shopping tv could use all 26 letters of the alphabet.
This also happens with BBC presenters now, and the BBC was the one media organisation whose staff could speak the Queen's English. It used to be just footballers who would fill their sentences with "like", "obviously", "you know", "literally" etc etc. Now, it seems like it is a badge of honour to be celebrated.
Stop..., like, NOW!😡