His pronunciation was poor when he worked at CHCH. As a sports fanatic he probably considers reading a competition too.

This is just part and parcel of having no people with experience around to correct the young folks who for some reason are radio announcers with limited knowledge of language.
some of the most annoying mispronunciations I hear are Nassaw instead of NASA, fentaNOL instead of fentaNIL, and as I noted earlier PunDINT instead of pundit.
I could also mention people who live in Toronto but still call it EGGLEton avenue, and of course the Princess gates instead of princes' as in the plural for gates named after two princes.

 

Some people don't mind how he talks, you can call it "To slur with love".

 

The reason why Canadians keep making the mistake is because since birth we have heard about Canada SAVINGS bonds.
Speaking of annoying announcer pronunciations, The guy who does the traffic reports on 680 keeps on reporting on "a stawd veekle" on the highway.
That's "Stalled vehicle" in case you were wondering.   Aaargh!

 

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