Hey Sam Clover: it is "KAY-WHY-DOUBLE-YOU"

[makemeamatch]

Sam Clover does two things that drive me NUTZ!
And, if he monitors this board, take these comments as constructive criticism...

The substance that is the fuel we put into our cars is called "gaS". It isn't "gaZ"....

Another few posters touched on this...Sam, stick to the facts. Listen during any given traffic report and I guarantee you, 95% of the time, he'll waste 10 to 40 seconds talking about "the sunglare hitting you between the eyes", "the haze (no Sam--haze is usually something that happens in the summer afternoon...if it's morning...it's usually fog) out there causing you to slow down and take it easy" and on-and on--and on....

I timed it not long ago of him going on and on about the superlatives of the incident before even giving the facts and it was 49 seconds! If he spent more time just giving the incidents and delays he could fit alot more in to his reports.

 

[2ez]

Who is it on the KYW podcasts that emphasizes KAY WHY DABBLE-YOO. Steve Tawa?

Yawa will speak entirely normal until he gets to the calls, and then intentionally pukes them. Every now and then I catch him NOT puking them, so it's obvious it's intentional.

There's a school of thought that doing something really annoying with your cadence will instill a memory of you in the listener's mind. I personally believe that's bullshit. I may remember them, but it doesn't make me listen any more than usual. In fact, in the case of Beth Tripani, I could not bring myself to hearing her say the calls more than a few times before I flipped over the Smirconish, if you can believe I actually found him LESS annoying. Since they're both CBS, maybe that was the idea? lol

 

[mcmannors]

Dubya EEEEEEEEEEEEEEN Bee Cee.

I believe you are mistaken. It was Dubya ENNNNNNNNNNNN Bee Cee.

 

[aindik]

Nah, I think I'm right. I put the transition between the E and the N as right when the tip of the tongue touches the roof of the mouth. That's right at the end of the EEEEEEN BC.

 

[mcmannors]

Nah, I think I'm right. I put the transition between the E and the N as right when the tip of the tongue touches the roof of the mouth. That's right at the end of the EEEEEEN BC.

The way you have it, there are too many E's. Your way would sound like "W- EEN- BC", like the way Louis Winthorpe III pronounced the word "been" in the movie "Trading Places". Like when he asked his fiance', "Do you know where I have BEEN?" after he was released from the cell after being arrested.

 

[aindik]

As in "bean?" No. It's EN (the Spanish word for "in") with many Es added for length of the vowel part of the word. The extra Es are not meant to change the pronunciation, just lengthen it.

An oddity in that scene in Private Parts was the use of "Dubya" by the PD at the beginning of the call letters. Which was supposed to emphasize what a rube the PD, and "Mr. Imus," whom the PD wanted Howard to imitate when saying the call letters, were. But that makes no sense. Any PD, even if the south, tells the talent that W is pronounced "double-yoo."

Someone with a natural New York accent, like Howard, would pronounce W as "dubba-yoo." A real PD would try to correct that into "double-yoo." The PD in the movie tried to change it into Dubya.

 

[mcmannors]

The extra Es are not meant to change the pronunciation, just lengthen it.

Oh, ok. That explains it. Thanks.

 

[DanStrassberg]

My favorite is "kay-wah-dubble-doo doos time is..."

KYW carries AccuWeather, right? (I'm in Boston so I normally can't hear KYW on the radio, though I imagine it's on the Web if I were curious enough to listen--which I'm not.) Does Dave Bowers ever do the AccuWeather forecasts on KYW? He is heard from time to time here on WBZ, so I know that I am not making this up. The guy is a meteorologist--on the RADIO for heaven's sake. (I think all of the AccuWeather forecasters that you hear on the radio hold degrees in meteorology.) He is obviously physically unable to pronounce the word meteorologist--and he gets a free pass on it from AccuWeather and from the various radio stations that carry AccuWeather. They let him say meteorolist--notice the missing OJJ syllable. Why, in this day and age, AccuWeather doesn't engage the services of a production person to put together recorded outros for the entire group of stations on which Bowers forecasts appear is a mystery to me. All they'd need to do is get him to say the single syllable OJJ one time. They could record it and paste it into "This is AccuWeather meterol_ist Dave Bowers for Wxxx (or Kxxx) <frequency>" and insert the entire pre-recorded three-second outro at the end of Bowers forecasts. The only reason I can think of for NOT doing it would be fear of getting the wrong station's outro on some of his forecasts some of the time.

 

[aindik]

Opie and Anthony have been known to make fun of legendary rock jock Carol Miller pronouncing W as dubbadoo. They'd lampoon her for pronouncing WNEW as dubbadoo N E dubbadoo.

 

[Evangelist]

Sam Clover does two things that drive me NUTZ!
And, if he monitors this board, take these comments as constructive criticism...

The substance that is the fuel we put into our cars is called "gaS". It isn't "gaZ"....

Many Philly and South Jersey natives call it "gaz." No big deal.

 

[kms575]

Sam Clover does two things that drive me NUTZ!
And, if he monitors this board, take these comments as constructive criticism...

The substance that is the fuel we put into our cars is called "gaS". It isn't "gaZ"....

Many Philly and South Jersey natives call it "gaz." No big deal.

I'd much rather hear the Philadelphia accent over the complete destruction of the English language by Bostonians any day.