Excuse me, Miss Pronunciation?

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 06:42 PM 8/30/2002, David W. Harris wrote:
>Two things formerly found on 1450 but absent for the past two years
>(blame Vox) are happily present again: personality in the morning show
>and correct pronunciation of the city of license at the top of the
>hour.

Speaking of pronunciation (pun intended :-)   I was down in Connecticut 
watching the Red Sox wallop the Yankees on Monday via the YES ("Yankee 
Entertainment Service"? - gag me) cable channel and I heard consistently 
different ways of saying both Yankees' and Red Sox players' names.  By 
which I mean, different from how the guys on Fox25 usually pronounce them.

Being honest here, the differences between the two channels on the Yankees' 
names was pretty small, but some of the Red Sox names sounded pretty harsh 
("Jason VARY-tek"??  I even heard a "NO-mer Garciaparra" slip out 
once)   Is this just evidence that Bostonians talk weird, New Yorkers talk 
weird, or just that the Yankees are determined to be obnoxious to everyone?


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