the pretentiousness of the way he pronounces certain words always stuck out to me, the concept of
hypercorrection is important here, the overuse of aspects of language that are associated with prestigious speech, for example using ‘whom’ where ‘who’ is actually correct. Phil, who calls football ‘American football’, clearly adopted the idea that BBC-style Received Pronunciation is somehow more correct than the version of US English he grew up around, and throws in a lot of stuff like intra-word t's that no American would ever use. think of him saying the word ‘exorbitant’ and you'll instantly know what I'm talking about