Pronounciations

[Gary's Ice Cream]

Better than the way Pat Bronstein (owner of WOTW back in the 70's) used to
pronounce it on the air..."Nash-way".  Helen Lagious (sp) from "Helen's
Polka Party" pronounced it the same way on air for years..."Oh Helen, Helen,
you are such a lovely miss...." (her theme song)...

 

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From: Paul B. Walker, Jr. [mailto:walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 6:12 PM
To: Gary's Ice Cream
Cc: Bill O'Neill; Boston Radio Group
Subject: Re: Pronounciations

 

Or how about this one from Bostonradio.org .. an audio clip of "900 WMVU
Nashwah"

http://audio.bostonradio.org/bd4bf17e-b439-11d8-9fd3-00904703287b.ogg

Paul

 

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Gary's Ice Cream <gary@garysicecream.com>
wrote:

Or how about Place-tough..........

Or the famous Gold Bold commercial (still running) that talks about a letter
from a customer in Hav-HER-hill, Massachusetts.  Pretty sad considering that
Gold Bond's home offices are IN Massachusetts.

                    Gary's Ice Cream, Chelmsford, MA
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-----Original Message-----
From: boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org
[mailto:boston-radio-interest-bounces@lists.BostonRadio.org] On Behalf Of
Bill O'Neill
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2013 3:46 PM
To: Paul B. Walker, Jr.; Boston Radio Group
Subject: Re: Pronounciations

How about even some locals who've trashed the pronunciation of some
Merrimack Valley towns.

Tewksbury: tooks'-bree or bury (where the tooks was spoken like took with an
s) It's often mangled with tooks to sound like a the Canadian winter cap.

Chelmsford. It's common knowledge that it's pronounced with or without the
L, and can handle an added P to yield, Chemps'-fid. Or Chemz'-fid. Or
Chelmz'-fid (The latter if you own a pool. Or poodle. Or both.)

Billerica. burr-ik'-a. Or brik'-a. Or even bil-rik'-a. Never 4 syllables.
Unless it's time to call a cab.

Lowell. Lole. Period. One syllable. If you have to add a syllable, make sure
the jingle singers punch them both evenly.

Tyngsboro / Tyngsborough. They can't even agree on spelling let alone how to
say it. Before the McMansions hit town (and neighboring Dunstable or Groton)
it really didn't matter anyway.  Most agree it's two syllables and
tingz'-bro.

Westford. There is no ford in it. It's west'-fid.

I'm sure inside every mahbl-HEAD' there are more.

Bill O'Neill

"Paul B. Walker, Jr." <walkerbroadcasting@gmail.com> wrote:
>A friend and i were listening to a radio station online and referred to
>it as the "Douche Bank" instead of "Deutsche Bank" 2013 Gold
>Championship.
>
>Now, I half expect that from Djs who are new and just starting on a
>local station.. local names of people or towns can be hard to say right
>without a little practice.
>
>That being said, I've mis pronounced stuff before... My first day on
>the air at KNLV Ord, Nebraska.. I mis pronounced Chadron and Saint
>Libory...
>you'd think those would be easy.. nope.. not for this "douche" LOL
>
>I pronounced Chadron as Chad-ron as any moron would do. NOPE! It's
>Shad-run.
>
>I pronounced Saint Libory as Saint Lib-er-ee. NOPE! It's Saint
>Luh-bore-ee.
>
>Just a rant/laugh for the day :)
>
>Paul

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