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Greg Gurule at KPHO MIA

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formeraa

What happened to Greg Gurule, the highly touted weekend anchor, at KPHO? He hasn't been anchoring the weekend news for the past three weeks. The last time I spotted him was over three weeks ago reporting for CBS 5 News at 6:30pm on a weekday.

As a side note, I noticed that he had changed the pronounciation of his last name from an Anglo (GURULEE) to a Hispanic-sounding (GU-RU-LAY). To me, this is rather ridiculous. Choose a pronounciation and stick with it. Don't change it midstream!
 
His bio is still on the station's website, so I'm going to guess vacation.

As for pronunciation, I've never heard him pronounce it any other way than gu-ru-LAY, which to me isn't Spanish, but French. Spanish accents the second-to-last syllable, so it would be pronounced gu-RU-lay. The current pronunciation is consistent with that of a co-worker I had with a similar name: Mule, which was pronounced myu-LAY. If the names were French, they would have a accute accent over the e in the original language (é), but accents are usually dropped when Anglicizing. Spanish names, on the other hand, have trended to restoring the accent, but use a grave accent (è).
 
That people pay attention to the migrant news staffs constantly amazes me.

And what could possibly be "highly touted" about a talking head?
 
Landtuna --

Honestly, you are right. Sorry to bring it up!

I certainly didn't expect a language lesson from Dave. I'm actually fluent in French, but honestly this pronounciation was not trying to be French. Greg and Catherine were definitely trying to make it sound Hispanic.
 
formeraa said:
Landtuna --

Honestly, you are right. Sorry to bring it up!

I certainly didn't expect a language lesson from Dave. I'm actually fluent in French, but honestly this pronounciation was not trying to be French. Greg and Catherine were definitely trying to make it sound Hispanic.
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Sacre Bleu!

I was just joshing wit ya.

But it sounds like a natural that making words sound Hispanic would be expected in this market. Maybe you need to be a Francophone to catch it.
 
formeraa said:
I certainly didn't expect a language lesson from Dave.
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I'm just full of hidden talents. Some people think I'm full of something else, too.
 
Sorry, I was a bit tired last night. Your point was well-made. Despite being a francophone, I am always surprised to hear French spoken here in the Southwest (as I was when I overheard a French conversation at the mall last weekend).
 
Greg did a 'BSS' (Breathless Street Segment) today at noon so I paid more attention to how he pronounced his name. It definitely came off with the pronunciation on the trailing 'LAY'.
 
formeraa said:
Sorry, I was a bit tired last night. Your point was well-made. Despite being a francophone, I am always surprised to hear French spoken here in the Southwest (as I was when I overheard a French conversation at the mall last weekend).
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No apology necessary - I took your comment as an expression of surprise, and nothing more. I grew up 80 miles from Canada in western NY and took 3 yrs of French in HS, thinking that because I lived near Canada, French would benefit me more than Spanish would. Missed on that one.
 
dhett said:
I grew up 80 miles from Canada in western NY and took 3 yrs of French in HS, thinking that because I lived near Canada, French would benefit me more than Spanish would. Missed on that one.
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I took 3 yrs of Latin in HS, part of the Honors program. Totally missed on that one.
:'(
 
dhett said:
formeraa said:
Sorry, I was a bit tired last night. Your point was well-made. Despite being a francophone, I am always surprised to hear French spoken here in the Southwest (as I was when I overheard a French conversation at the mall last weekend).
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No apology necessary - I took your comment as an expression of surprise, and nothing more. I grew up 80 miles from Canada in western NY and took 3 yrs of French in HS, thinking that because I lived near Canada, French would benefit me more than Spanish would. Missed on that one.
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Honestly, I don't think much about French pronounciations except when the name ends in -eaux or something like that!:)

Yeah, back in the day, my high school didn't even teach Spanish! They felt that French, German, and Latin were much more important languages (who knew?). I actually took 4 years of high school and 3 years of college French -- and I still rarely have anyone to speak with.
 
formeraa said:
I actually took 4 years of high school and 3 years of college French -- and I still rarely have anyone to speak with.
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Quelle domage! (Can't do too much of this - moderators have enforced English-only in the past. Which is understandable.)
 
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