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Legal no matter how you pronounce it... (was: Re: AM 740 not doing Legal ID)



> the Lowell id in this top of the hour id is a whisper, and just to
> knitpick, it's WKLB, not WLKB  ;-))
>
> df

And if you pronounce "Lowell" properly, you can move it along even
_faster_.  FYI, locals pronounce it, "Lole." Despite that, I've always
leaned towards Lo-w'll.  Another Merrimack Valley town in Mass.,
Chelmsford, has varied pronounciations.  "CheLmz-ford, Chemz-ferd, and
then the all-time fave, (don't ask) Chempsfid."  Tewksbury:  "Tooks'
brie (locals) then there's the "new guy in radio way to say it"
Toooks-bury (so wrong it's funny).  But, since these towns are but a
speck in the overall Boston ADI, even if you alienate the entire town,
no one else will notice or care.  Wrong: PEA-body, RIght: PEA bidy.
Wrong: CON-kord Right: Cong' kerd.

Bill O'Neill