Boston-Radio-Interest Digest, Vol 16, Issue 221

[Elliot Abrams]

President Eisenhower said nukular as well!

But who am I to cast stones? My humid comes out as Yumid.

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>   1. Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words (Dan.Strassberg)
>   2. Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words (Donna Halper)
>   3. Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words (A Joseph Ross)
>   4. Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words (Peter Murray)
>   5. Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words (Richard Chonak)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 11:38:11 -0400
> From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
> To: "Chris Hall" <chris2526@comcast.net>,
>    <boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org>
> Subject: Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words
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> Well, maybe it's good to demand better pronunciation from TV and radio
> announcers than we demand from presidents. After all, announcers don't need
> to deal with all of the problems that confront the country and the world, so
> presidents have an excuse for poor pronunciation that announcers do not
> have. Still, we should not forget that persistently mispronouncing nuclear
> in the same stupid way has afflicted two US presidents--one from each
> political party. And one of those presidents was a very bright man--a
> nukular engineer, even. The other was a graduate of Yale, though it's not
> clear that he would have graduated had his father (who went on to become
> president himself and AFAIK COULD correctly pronounce nuclear) not, at the
> time, been a very highly placed government official.
> 
> -----
> Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Hall" <chris2526@comcast.net>
> To: <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 12:38 AM
> Subject: WINS anchors mispronouncing words
> 
> 
> Listening to WINS today and heard several mispronounced words including my
> favorite cringe of all time NUKE-KU-LER, the anchor babe mispronounced
> it three times in one story. The broadcast industry once had high standards,
> now even companies like CBS and their programmers pay zero
> attention to this type of error, they go on and on. The great legends of CBS
> News must be turning in their graves.
> You hear this stuff from PBS all the way down to local operations. When
> someone comes into a market and they no longer instructed
> about local pronunciations. This was a must years ago, now it is just
> another very common embarrassment for all concerned.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 12:52:55 -0400
> From: Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>
> To: TVNETDUDE@aol.com
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@tsornin.BostonRadio.org,
>    chris2526@comcast.net
> Subject: Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words
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> On 9/2/2012 10:37 AM, TVNETDUDE@aol.com wrote:
>> I was watching Channel 5 in NY during their 6PM newscast a few days  ago.
>> The story was about prehistoric remains found and they were from the
>> "Jurrasic Park Period".
>> 
> 
> And then, we have the dreaded dangling modifiers.  I saw a story on 
> channel 4 several weeks ago about a shark whose body washed up on the 
> beach, and the reporter said that a bystander had "sent a picture of the 
> shark with a cell phone camera."  Needless to say, I was pretty excited 
> to learn that now, even sharks can use an iPhone or Android.
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:28:50 -0400
> From: A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
> Subject: Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words
> Message-ID: <504415E2.1070909@attorneyross.com>
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> On 9/2/2012 11:38 AM, Dan.Strassberg wrote:
> 
>> Well, maybe it's good to demand better pronunciation from TV and radio
>> announcers than we demand from presidents. After all, announcers don't 
>> need
>> to deal with all of the problems that confront the country and the 
>> world, so
>> presidents have an excuse for poor pronunciation that announcers do not
>> have. Still, we should not forget that persistently mispronouncing 
>> nuclear
>> in the same stupid way has afflicted two US presidents--one from each
>> political party. And one of those presidents was a very bright man--a
>> nukular engineer, even. The other was a graduate of Yale, though it's not
>> clear that he would have graduated had his father (who went on to become
>> president himself and AFAIK COULD correctly pronounce nuclear) not, at 
>> the
>> time, been a very highly placed government official.
> 
> I wonder if it's a difference in regional pronunciation.  Is "nukular" a 
> standard Southern pronunciation?
> 
> -- 
> A. Joseph Ross, J.D.|92 State Street|Suite 700|Boston, MA 02109-2004
> 617.367.0468|Fx:617.507.7856|http://www.attorneyross.com
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 23:49:09 -0400
> From: Peter Murray <peterwmurray@gmail.com>
> To: A Joseph Ross <joe@attorneyross.com>
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words
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> It is no more southern than "corpse-man" is Mid-Western.....
> On Sep 2, 2012 11:30 PM, "A Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I wonder if it's a difference in regional pronunciation.  Is "nukular" a
>> standard Southern pronunciation?
>> 
>> --
>> A. Joseph Ross, J.D.|92 State Street|Suite 700|Boston, MA 02109-2004
>> 617.367.0468|Fx:617.507.7856|http://www.attorneyross.**com<http://www.attorneyross.com>
>> 
>> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:55:12 -0400
> From: Richard Chonak <rac@gabrielmass.com>
> To: boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: WINS anchors mispronouncing words
> Message-ID: <50442A20.4060708@gabrielmass.com>
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> I get the impression that it's customary among military personnel.
> 
> --RC
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 09/02/2012 11:49 PM, Peter Murray wrote:
>> It is no more southern than "corpse-man" is Mid-Western.....
>> On Sep 2, 2012 11:30 PM, "A Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I wonder if it's a difference in regional pronunciation.  Is "nukular" a
>>> standard Southern pronunciation?
>>> 
> 
> 
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