Towns and Cities Ending in 'O' | Pointless UK | Season 24 Episode 24 | Full Episode 

Yeah, and other times theyre much harsher on much slighter inaccuracies. It must be frustrating for the other teams, that one of their competitors to win actual money was just handed 18 points for a wrong answer. I would have objected. Especially considering they discounted Tami vs Tani, which is a smaller mistake than Thornbird vs Thunberg They also think that Malmö ends in an O though, so... it seems they dont give two shits about respecting Swedish names, whether it's place names or people's names

To be fair, Tanni is Welsh. Thunberg is already pronounced incorrectly by everyone on the British Isles to begin with. "Th" is just a hard "T" (like Anthony or Thomas), the u is more like the oo in yahoo (albeit slightly different), and berg is pronounced like berry but with the "y" in "yes" at the end. So it's more or less like Toonberryuh.

If he had said Thorm berg I would say fine. But he really did Thorn bird..lol

I know, absolutely shocking! Glad that Uncle Alice was a pointless though!

It was unfortunate for him, but not harsh: the answer was simply wrong. If they had accepted that, they would also have had to accept "Tabby", "Tally" and so on - none of which are her name. Conversely, they *were* overly lenient to accept "Thornberg". That's not a mere mispronunciation: it's pretty clear he recalled the name wrongly.

In English it is spelt with an "o". The English language doesn't have the letter ö. Tokyo ends with a 京 when it's spelt in Japanese but similarly the English language doesn't have this letter.

Don't you hate people who hang around here just to nit-pick?@@lilbriggie

Yeah, I commented that too. They don't understand how big of a difference there is between A-Ä, O-Ö and A-Å.

@@lilbriggie Well, it still appears as MalmÖ on the board, so...

Not in Portuguese, no .. but acceptable in English

Wow I didn't know the answers were based on ticking diversity boxes, how does that work then? Shouldn't the hosts be black as well or would that be too obvious?

@@snarkybuttcrack in case you didn’t watch the episode, a board of 16 famous women to name. Just previous to the lad saying Tammi Grey-Thompson, another lad said Greta Thornburg which was claimed to be ok because ‘somewhere in the world they will pronounce it as Thornburg not Thunberg’ absolutely pathetic, they didn’t want to tell him he was wrong because he was black and gay…tick, tick, tickety-tick.

I’m Irish and couldn’t figure out the seaport one!😂