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Despard, Richard Osman uses Twitter a lot. You should tweet him about your gripe. I bet he would reply.

Malone

Thanks. I don't know Mr Aspberay, but is he a greengrocer? I am going to the market next Saturday to see Ivan and will ask if he knows Ivor. I suspect he will and there may be more grumbles to report.

I assume the clue is a poor one!

My current (literally) gripe is "Febyoory". All who say it clearly could not bring into being a piss-up in a … byoory.

Jigjag, Ivor has a fruit farm and supplies many local greengrocer's (…).

A few of us thought the ST clue was poor, but a Forum regular, Rosalind, pronounces the two words the same.

Malone

Interesting re fruit farm.

I agree with Rosalind! Many words pronounced the same with our vowels.

Jigjag, thanks. Yes, I've got used to the vowels affecting pronunciation - that's cropped up in a few crosswords. I've also got used to the phantom R creeping into words such as 'drawing'. For Oar/Awe, I can't work out whether you're losing the R in Oar or putting one in Awe!

Cockle, a very timely post!

Laura Norder.

Malone

I just say "or". Nothing stressed or rolled - don't know how to describe it really.

Cleverjo

I love it - never seen it written like that!

Malone

It is very confusing when people, who speak like I do, also drop their "aitches". My aunt is in this category, and if she were to address a group of artists who paint in sheep-farmer Hugh's tree-lined field, she might say,

"In the field where youse use hues, Hugh's ewes use yews."

...and it makes sense! "Youse" is used as the plural of "you" by some people here.

I must ask my aunt to read this aloud. I am sure it will sound great (grate?).