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Radio newsreaders and television accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue at Ireland's national broadcaster RTE are up in accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue at being told to pronounce words accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue to the Queen's English. A accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue in The Irish Sun newspaper claims that RTE's broadcasters have been issued an A-Z style guide of words which instructs them on how to pronounce accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue words in an accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue to ensure they are clearly understood. The A-Z comes with audio accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue containing elocution lessons of how to "properly" pronounce the " accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue" words. An official at RTE told the Irish Sun that producers issued the guide to keep up accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue. It said RTE had received complaints from the public over how accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue words were supposedly mispronounced.

Irish linguistics accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue Professor Raymond Hickey called the RTE's actions "internalized accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue". He expressed his disbelief that Irish speakers were being asked to use words with an English accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue. He said: "The basic issue is RTE expects its accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue to speak as if they were English. Why? We have our own form of English, which is accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue but fully accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue and accepted worldwide." Professor Hickey highlighted some accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue of the words Irish presenters are being asked to pronounce with a British English accent. He said: "The Irish don't pronounce the TH [in 'birthday'] as a fricative, but as a stop with no accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue….The same is accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue of 'news' - the Irish pronunciation is and accentaccordingalwaysarmsbreathcertainclipscolonialismdifferenteffortexamplesexpertlegitimatepresentersproblemreportstaffstandardstrue has been 'nooze'."