[B-R-I] Re: nu-ku-lar

[Jim Hall]

And then there's "OFF TEN" instead of "OFFEN" for "often". 

And "Haich" instead of "aich" for the letter H.  I think that's a UK thing, because I have heard otherwise well-spoken people on BBC America use it.

I am trying to remember when regional dialects first began to appear on national TV. Previously everyone on TV spoke with a very neutral mid-west accent that varied little from announcer to announcer. My own inclination is to think it happened when Dan Rather covered the Kennedy assassination in Dallas for KRLD-TV and was carried nationally on CBS. Dan's accent was so thick then you could cut it with a knife then. But his reporting was outstanding and the network hired him, accent and all.

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From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org [mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@tsornin.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of Bill O'Neill
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 11:36 AM
To: Ed Hennessy; Boston-Radio-Interest@lists.BostonRadio.org
Subject: Re: RE: [B-R-I] Re: nu-ku-lar

Put me down for heighT not heighTH. Drives me nut-th. 
Bill O’