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CH. 11 KTVT'S MARIA DOESN'T KNOW TEXAS

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KPLEXCOMPLEX

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At 4pm she mentioned the wild fires in ' BEX -R" county where San Antonio is. If she is hispanic she would knows its pronounced "BEAR" COUNTY. Next up Anna Nicole's birthplace( MEXIA) will be called "MEX- E-A" instead of "Muh Hay -Ya" Do they not proof read copy there and use a "pro- noun-see-ation-" guide?
 
I beg your pardon ???...BEXAR is not a "Hispanic" pronounciation, it is an OLD Spanish/Indian pronounciation.

I lived in Dallas for 5 years and never even heard of "BEXAR" country. I moved to San Antonio and learned how to pronounce it very quickly.

One of our anchors here in Phoenix pronounced Greenwich Village as "Green-wich" as opposed to "Grenich" and he's of ANGLO descent. Don't you think he would know better (since it's his "native" pronounciation)??? Of course, this type of logic is at best stupid and at worst racist. ::) ::)
 
I don't think KPLX was trying to be a racist. The point is, if the "talent" is unsure of how to pronounce something, they should ask. I've seen it many times with names in this state... Refugio (Refuryeo), Nueces (nay-ch-es), Brazos (Brah-zus), etc. It's gotten so bad, where I work, they just put the way you pronounce it in the teleprompter. Bexar county is one of the largest, and one of the most populated in this state, so to mispronounce that is embarrassing and with San Antonio being my hometown, it rubs me the wrong way when someone mispronounces Bexar County. :mad:
 
Aw, but 'Plex, she looked good, and that's what matters.
Seriously, whoever wrote the script should have put a pronouncer in it, unless they were TRYING to embarass the anchoress.
Sno- Nueces is pronounced Nay ch es? I've been pronouncing it New Aces all my life...
And how about all those anchors who pronounce Lancaster 'Lan Caster' instead of Lank uh ster...
In Austin it's Elgin with a hard g, Buda with a oo sound, Manchaca as Man-shack. I believe they do that on purpose to make it easier to spot the out-of-towners.
(btw: BEXAR is named after a spanish nobleman, El Duque De Bejar, the vice-roy's brother. Anglos changed it to BEAR, instead of Bay Har, as it is in espanol.)
 
Perhaps my sarcasm got the best of me. However, I was simply trying to make the point that, because somebody's "Hispanic" doesn't mean that they know how to pronounce "Hispanic" names. BEXAR is an OLD Spanish name (not currently spoken Spanish).

In addition, I know many "Hispanic" people who actually don't speak Spanish (even in San Antonio). That addresses that racial stereotype part of my comment.

Similarly, "Grenich" is the OLD English pronounciation of Greenwich, but the ANGLO anchor here in Phoenix didn't know that. Same idea, same stereotyping!
 
Former faa: No it wasn't being rascist. It was pointing out that PREP was not done. "BEXAR" Grant was actually named after an old Spanish KING ,dating back to Cotez. "BAY-HAR"Is the true pronunciation. "BEAR" was introduced in the mid 19th century.
Grant knows I lived in SA for 19 years and was in the media there.
So to hear someone mispronounce a place ,no matter where the hell on the globe it is,shows pure laziness. You are suppose to get it right in reporting the news,even the pronounciation. True there some hispanics ( notably Canary Islander decendants) in SA that do not speak spanish, however its no excuse not to have a pronounciation guide available.

Perhaps KTVT will invest in one for Maria,and others.
 
snoman said:
Nueces (nay-ch-es),
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Interesting. I grew up and lived in Corpus Christi for 18 years (till 1972), and I never heard this pronunciation of Nueces. Every one I knew there pronounced it as 'New Aces', as did the Radio and TV people I saw there.
 
Sp1c3run said:
snoman said:
Nueces (nay-ch-es),
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Interesting. I grew up and lived in Corpus Christi for 18 years (till 1972), and I never heard this pronunciation of Nueces. Every one I knew there pronounced it as 'New Aces', as did the Radio and TV people I saw there.
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Perhaps the poster is confusing the Nueces and Neches Rivers.
 
JRA said:
Sp1c3run said:
snoman said:
Nueces (nay-ch-es),
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Interesting. I grew up and lived in Corpus Christi for 18 years (till 1972), and I never heard this pronunciation of Nueces. Every one I knew there pronounced it as 'New Aces', as did the Radio and TV people I saw there.
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Perhaps the poster is confusing the Nueces and Neches Rivers.
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Sorry, I was... Freudian slip. Does this mean I can get an anchor gig at KTVT?! I was talking about the NECHES River and not NUECHES County, which is where Corpus is, unless I'm mistaken about that.

Seguin (Segeeen) is another one I've heard once or twice pronounced SEGWIN.
Cuero (Kwairro), I heard as QWEARO.

And, the one that drives me the most nuts, I hear it mostly from people in North/Northeast Texas is NEW BRAUNFELS. There is no "S" in the middle of BRAUNFELS. It is NOT "Brawnsfels". I corrected one of my teachers on this one, when I was in school, and got sent down to the principal's office for being a smart a$$. I wasn't trying to be, I just think the class should know the correct pronunciation of the city.
 
Let us not forget "Pearsall" Pronounced "Peer -sal" not "Pair-sel"''Then there is "Schertz" pronounced "Shirts" not "sh*T-erts"

You too can be a CBS 11 anchor!
 
KPLEXCOMPLEX said:
At 4pm she mentioned the wild fires in ' BEX -R" county where San Antonio is. If she is hispanic she would knows its pronounced "BEAR" COUNTY. Next up Anna Nicole's birthplace( MEXIA) will be called "MEX- E-A" instead of "Muh Hay -Ya" Do they not proof read copy there and use a "pro- noun-see-ation-" guide?
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Its "Bay-HAR"...not BEAR....and even though I grew up in Texas and drove past it in I45 many times, I never knew Mexia's correct pronunciation until my mid 20s (I called it Mexia)....
as for Hispanic, a good friend of mine's last name is Gomez...and he doesnt speak "hispanic" or Spanish or anything other than English!!! DUUUUHHHHH!!!

True, if a NEWS personality cannot pronounce correctly, then 1) the producer should get a new copy person and 2) the director should get a new producer ;) The on air person may not know how to pronounce some names and should be may aware of it before going on camera...but that job falls on someone else (Give us Dirty Laundry).
 
YUP it is "Bay-Har" for the correct Spanish enunciation. Since the mid 19th century however the natives simply refer to it as "Bear", even the county trucks have a BEAR logo. Let's not forget the North Texas town of "Deleon" Its pronounced "DEE-LEE-ON" by the citizens there, Not the correct spanish origination " of "DAY-LEE-ON".
 
Let us hope and pray

that nothing newsworthy happens in Boerne, Llano or Iraan.

Come to think of it, nothing newsworthy has ever happened in any of those towns.

Then again, there was the perverted Russian orthodox priest in Boerne.

And by the way, Iraan has three syllables. Eye-ra-ann. It made news a long time ago.

The name has nothing to do with the country of Iran. It's named for Ira and Ann Yates. When oil was discovered on the Yates ranch, they had a contest to name the town that would soon materialize. The person who combined Ira and Ann's names won a town lot as a prize.

Iraan today has two newspapers. But as an Iraanian told us (in a confidential tone) "It's the same news." We bought both papers. It was the same news. Different photos though.

Because of its semi-remote location, the school district provides its teachers with housing.

Iraan is also the birthplace of Alley Oop, at onetime an extremely popular syndicated comic strip. Creator V.T. Hamlin was a newspaperman in Iraan when he came up with the idea for a caveman who looked like he was wearing bellbottoms when he wasn't even wearing pants. While virtually unknown now, Alley Oop was nearly as popular as Dick Tracy and Tarzan.

Mr. Oop had a dinosaur named Dinny and there is a likeness of both Alley Oop and Dinny at the 7 acre Fantasyland just west of town amid mulberry trees.
 
Alley oop Hollywood Argyles -1960

Its still popular btw. Its in countless newspapers, and you can go to Yahoo and search comic strips. you'll see comics.com and there it is .
 
CW said:
as for Hispanic, a good friend of mine's last name is Gomez...and he doesnt speak "hispanic" or Spanish or anything other than English!!! DUUUUHHHHH!!!
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I'm glad that someone here finanly GOT it! Texas is quite segregated but I was beginning to think nobody in Texas had friends from other ethnic/racial backgrounds.
 
Good Grief AA. Your PC glasses need to be checked in. Try to widen your scope from being narrow.
 
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