In this heavy election time down south and our own highly charged political atmosphere in Canada, I find myself yelling at the radio like an old man yelling at a cloud, whenever I hear even the most skilled broadcasters mispronouncing the word, "pundit."
The most common mispronunciation is" pundint."
I have even heard pundits call themselves pundints.
It may be just a petty peeve, but c'mon big shot talk show hosts and newscasters should know better.
Just to be pedantic, as opposed to pedatic, here's the origin of the word.
It dates back to ancient Sanskrit, and it means a learned person.
That's LER-nid, not learn'd as Homer Simpson would say.
It is also the root for the modern Hindi word, pandit.
You might have heard some prominent Indian people called pandit, the most famous being the Indian leader Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
(Anybody own a so-called Nehru jacket back in the 70s?  I did).
So that's my rant. Do you applaud me, or have you just panned it?

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