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Another massive mispronunciation
I was watching CTV News at Noon and there was a story about PEI lowering the suggested age for colonoscopies from 50 to 45.
Reporter Maria Sarrouh said people aged between 45 and 50 would be eligible for a free test every two years. Only she didn't say eligible, she said illegible.
The saddest bit is when I went to YouTube to double check what I heard, I saw that the exact report with the exact mistake also played last night,so editors had at least two chances to fix it.
The offending bit is at the :27 mark. I just watched it again and she makes the same mistake at the end of the report.
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Bad gasoline in Elmvale, Ontario. The CTV reporter seems to say "Emvale". I know plenty from the area, and they all say "Elmvale".
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Easily Amused wrote:
Bad gasoline in Elmvale, Ontario. The CTV reporter seems to say "Emvale". I know plenty from the area, and they all say "Elmvale".
Speaking of Elmvale, a Dodge Ram pickup commercial currently running was evidently shot on the main drag and at the intersection. Unique architecture clearly identifies the location
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Also speaking of that particular Hyundai vehicle, the Tuscan, I often hear it called a Tuss cun. It is a two san, like the city in Arizona.
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Speaking of Elmvale, a Dodge Ram pickup commercial currently running was evidently shot on the main drag and at the intersection. Unique architecture clearly identifies the location
D.D.
You wouldn't have a link to that, would you? I clomped around YouTube, but had no success. Thank you.
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It always irked me when I'd hear Hundai salesman Nav Batia deliberately mispronounce the car brand as Hun-dye, so it would rhyme with "I'm your guy."
He eventually stopped doing that but then the rhyme no longer worked.
It sounded absurd that the man who sells Hundai cars for a living did not seem to know how to pronounce For the record it is HUN-day. A Korean friend of mine also says Koreans would actually pronounce it HYUN-deh. with the deh part spoken softly.
BTW the word means "modern" in Korean.
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I grew up in the Windsor area and worked at both Ford and Chrysler and never once there did I hear anyone call it "Cries-ler" yet I hear reporters and anchors say that all the time. It's "Cry-sler"
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As George Springer says " if you pronounce the second "t" people are going to know you are not from this area "! Then why do I still hear so many Toronto broadcasters mis-pronounce the name of the city where they work. ?
I know I keep harping on this but I cringe when I hear Toron-TOE .
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I am used to Trono and Tor-on-o. I heard a new one yesterday from someone doing the top of the hour station ID on CFRB. They referred to the city as Turr-on-o.
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Speaking of Elmvale, a Dodge Ram pickup commercial currently running was evidently shot on the main drag and at the intersection. Unique architecture clearly identifies the location
D.D.You wouldn't have a link to that, would you? I clomped around YouTube, but had no success. Thank you.
The Dodge Ram commercial ran this aternoon on CTV @ 4:55 p.m.
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Speaking of Elmvale, a Dodge Ram pickup commercial currently running was evidently shot on the main drag and at the intersection. Unique architecture clearly identifies the location
D.D.You wouldn't have a link to that, would you? I clomped around YouTube, but had no success. Thank you.
The Dodge Ram commercial ran this aternoon on CTV @ 4:55 p.m.
CORRECTION: It ran on CBC TV, not CTV. Apologies, they all look the same to me
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On CFRB's Sunday Morning Trivia, I heard host Jason Agnew call the new leader of the NDP "Eh-vee" Lewis. And it wasn't just an accident. He said it the wrong way about five times in a row within a minute, after it came up as one of his questions.
It is, of course, pronounced Ah-vee, and it's a well enough known name that he should be aware of it by now.