mic'em wrote:

When we first moved here ( Greater Sudbury Area ) in Feb 24, I hired a local fellow to do some renovations in the house. Day one, I asked him the correct pronunciation of the local names I was curious about. I knew about camp versus cottage as my wife is originally from this region. I didn't want the stigma of being a " southener " . It's bad enough that the majority of the locals here have French as their mother tongue. I have no understanding of  French at all, but I find everyone is bilingual to my great relief. 

Je comprend si vous parlez tres lentement. I wouldn't go thirsty in a Montreal bar. Deux Molson's. I like Export.

Here's an official list of the most mangled words on the media for 2025. (It's from the U.S., so it shouldn't surprise you that many of them were from stories down south.)

"The language-learning company Babbel and closed-captioning company The Captioning Group on Thursday released a list of the words that news anchors, politicians and other public figures in the U.S. struggled with the most this year."

Zohran Mamdani and the Louvre make the list of most mispronounced words of 2025

Did Rahim Ladhani really just call Kapuskasing "Ka-Puss-Ka-Ping" on CTV News at 6? Yes, I'm afraid he did. 

I'm pretty sure he knows how to pronounce it, I think the copy in the prompter just took him by surprise. At least I hope so!

DX wrote:

A 680 News staffer pronounced Bob Weir as "Bob Wire" this afternoon

Better name for a rock star, anyway!

RadioActive wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

Did Rahim Ladhani really just call Kapuskasing "Ka-Puss-Ka-Ping" on CTV News at 6? Yes, I'm afraid he did. 

I'm pretty sure he knows how to pronounce it, I think the copy in the prompter just took him by surprise. At least I hope so!

Rahim Ladhani strikes again. In talking about the various critters that pop up for Groundhog Day on CTV's Sunday 6 PM newscast, he listed the rodent weather predictors from various places, including Punxsutawney Phil, the famous Ohio groundhog.

It's pronounced Punks-a-tawny, but Ladhani apparently did not know that. He called his Pucks-aca-ta-wanee, which isn't even close. 

Does this mean six more weeks of mispronunciations?

That famous Ohio groundhog must travel well. Punxsutawney is in Pennsylvania!

There are some names you should just know if you're in the news biz. I always thought Natalie Johnson of CTV Toronto was pretty good. But then on Sunday's CTV News at 6, she reported on the start of Holy Week with the Pope, talking about the Church of the Holy Sep-ul-cher (rhymes with "vulture.")

Unless she just got caught by surprise, how could you not know the name of one of the most famous places in the world and something that comes up every single year?