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My favorite didn't make that list though, jono. Mullet - "A hairstyle that is short at the front, long at the back, and ridiculous all round"

Thanks Darla, I recall mullet now you mention it. Of the more recent additions there’s also …
boy band
“A pop group, targeting mainly the teenage market, composed of young males chosen because they look good and can dance and sometimes even sing”

chrise

re Welsh pronunciation

May I, with tongue firmly in cheek, recommend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq3bg0cVJM4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVsvCGbBtU

swarbrules @333
Oh dear! And what strange podcasts anyway. Why they couldn't get someone to do the voiceover who could pronounce the words?
LANGOLEN!
And then suddenly he got Pontypridd pretty much right!

I am particularly fond of Sinnon and the misstressed Glanamon.

From the BBC News site:
With flu cases continuing to rise and the cold weather exasperating health conditions, ....

Heard on the BBC Radio 3 news a few days ago:

"If you drink coffee in the morning, you're 16% less likely to die."

The presenter of the programme that followed said: "Coffee can give you immortality. You heard it here first."

I'm watching a (rather poor) programme on Stonehenge, and have heard two examples of "fascination" going in the wrong direction:

"He had a fascination for stone circles...."

From Crowd Science, a World Service programme about high altitude flight by birds:

...there are less molecules, what does that mean?

It means you didn't pay attention during English classes.