Re: Fwd: Radio Announcers, Jingles & short i

["rogerkirk" <rogerkirk@mail.ttlc.net>]

"Laurence Glavin" wrote

>Speaking of which: if you were employed by the White House,
>would you be afraid to say new-clee-ar instead of nucu-lar?
No!  I will note that in the 60's, in the Catholic Church,
the highest ranking cleric at any gathering was entitled
to determine how a word was (mis)pronounced and the lower ranks
were obliged to mispronounce it the same way.

>I'm also annoyed by LAWYERS who say pled when they mean pleaded.
I'll plaid the fifth.

Roger