I don't know what messes me up more, presidents and engineers who say
"NEW cue lure" for "nuclear" or sports people (like Neal O'Donnell) who
say "JAG wire" for "jaguar." As in Jacksonville "Jag-wires."

-KD

"KD" gmail.com> wrote in message
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Or the British pronounciation... Jag-U-are.

Different strokes, I guess, but I'd add "Kroger's" to your list, as there's
no apostrophe "s" on the end of the food store's name.

And, real-a-tor.

Back in the radio days, I once worked for WOAI, and we got a card in the
mail once from some South Texas Bubba (or he might have been from some
entirely other state, as that station covered at least 26 states in those
days), complaining about the announcer (me) identifying the station as (and
this is the way he wrote it out) "double U OAI." He says, I don't think
there is a station called "double U OAI," but he also noted that "I know all
about Dubya OAI."

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:32:49 -0600, "Olin" comcast.net> wrote:

Back in the 60's, when I worked in radio, we had a card on the wall
from the FCC that told us how to pronounce WMAK. The card looked like
it had been there since the 50's. I was just a kid, and that was how
I learned to pronounce double u's. It had never occurred to me how
one would spell W if you had to write it out phonetically. As obvious
as it was upon seeing it, I was mildly surprised to have it so simply
revealed to me.

It still grates my chalkboard to hear, even on WPLN, announcers say
"dubaya" or "dubyala" or some other such bastardization of such a
simple word.

On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:48:59 GMT, JG none.net> wrote:

. . .and I'm an English major.

In article 4ax.com>,
JG none.net> wrote:

I'm only a PFC but I have a couple of friends at the University of West
Florida radio StationWUWF. Try saying that three times fast. Everyone
on the air ALWAYS says their call with a tiny bit of hesitancy.

I proposed they call it either W-UWF or 5-UF, but they have yet to take
me up on that suggestion.

"JG" none.net> wrote in message

Grating is a good term for it, and it's never seemed to me to be entirely a
southern thing, as I worked with plenty of folks of the northern persuasion
who insisted on pronouncing the letter "dubya."

Olin wrote:

Yep, that messes me up too. I want to say to everone who does that,
"Look and pay attention to the order of the vowels relative to the
consonants in that word and pronounce accordingly."

-KD

"KD" gmail.com> wrote in message
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You can tell if a broadcaster is new in town, especially when he/she gives a
traffic report ... Ardee Ave., Lafayette St., Demonbreun St. Right, wrong,
or indifferent, that ain't the way it's said here.

KD wrote:

I thought the common dialect round here had it being pronounced
"Jag-wars".

KD wrote:

I thought the common dialect round here had it being pronounced
"Jag-wars".