Fwd: Radio Announcers, Jingles & short i

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

>DATE: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:01:54
>From: "rogerkirk" <rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net>
>To: "BRI"  <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>

>I've noticed over the past 3 or 4 months that >announcers
>on Boston radio increasingly use the "short i" instead
>of the schwa sound.  Examples:

>Plim-ith
>Kin-ven-shin
>Kin-eti-kit
>Paula-tish-in
>Court Dock-it
>Govern-mint
>Ad-min-is-tray-shin

>And the commercial jingle that sings (oh so plainly)
>Twin-Brook In-Shur-Intz
>Is this a regionalism?  A national thing?  A trend?
>A bad thing?

Bahstin Mayah Tom Menino talks that way; perhaps HE'S infecting
people around him,
Speaking of which: if you were employed by the White House,
would you be afraid to say new-clee-ar instead of
nucu-lar?
I'm also annoyed by LAWYERS who say pled when they mean pleaded.

Laurence Glavin



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