Re: Re: Nationals?

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

This happens in Maine regularly.  Maine has a lot of hard to pronounce place
names.  The local TV stations never seem to bother to give their new
reporters a pronunciation guide before they put them on the air.


----- Original Message -----
From: <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>
To: <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Cc: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Nationals?


> Heck, think locally....
>
> How many newbies on the air say Woo-burn (vs Wu-burn), Pee-body (vs
Peabudy), Wooster (or War-cester) vs wustah or the ocassional Lee-sester (vs
lester for Leicester)