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robgrayson

I guarantee you... this morning I heard a commercial on a Memphis station where "Tunica" was pronounced "tuh-NEE-ka".*

*ok, if you've heard me in the morning on 'kno, you know i'm the last person who should talk, but at least my goofs are live... this was pre-recorded and entered into the system, and should have been caught and FIXED.
 
If nothing else, it's displaying a lack of respect for the Tunicants.
 
Reminds me of those movies they used to advertise on tv some years ago. They were usually about Indians in the old west, but with a modern twist to them. Some were quite good. The production company would buy ads on tv with long run-out tags listing all the small town theaters where the movie could be seen. They seldom ran in Memphis.
The tags were done out-of-market and the poor shmoo who cut them butchered all the usual suspects...Milan, Grenada, Cairo, Louisville (MS), and more. I'd watch the spot just for the chuckles brought forth by the chop job.

BTW, what tv reporter now in this market once read a wire story on a radio station that was datelined Tucson, but was read Tucksun, Arizona? We've all been there, haven't we?
 
Some of my favorites have been recently...there is one Yankee guy (on 3 maybe?) who I saw once talking about "Obion County" (Union City) only he pronounced it as if it rhymed with Obi-Wan! Hilarious!

I also heard someone during flooding recently on TV news talking about the "Forkt Deer River."
Another one obviously not from here, as we all know it's "Fork-Ed Deer!"

BTW...did Wolfchase Toyota finally realize their cute yankee chick wasn't going to go over reall well here?
I ask because I saw another lady doing their last commercial I saw yesterday or so. I guess she "Had to go?"
:D

Nothing personal against Yankees, you understand. I was born in Michigan myself...but I got here as soon as possible (about 7 years old)
 
I am not in your market, but do have a story.

Many years back, I was working in Ohio, and one of the nearby towns where the station is, is Gallipolis. I had to do a news report, and I mistakenly pronounced it to rhyme with metropolis, "gall-op-olis", after all that is how I was taught to pronounce new words (I had never heard of this town before that experience). The Owner and GM came blazing into the studio yelling at me that it is not pronounced to rhyme with metropolis, but that it is pronounced "Gal-i-police" (soft "i", like "it"). he proceeded to tell me that if I didn't know how to pronounce something to ask! ummm...I thought I was pronouncing it properly, otherwise I would have asked.

So, yes...we've all been there!
 
Meepster said:
BTW...did Wolfchase Toyota finally realize their cute yankee chick wasn't going to go over reall well here?
I ask because I saw another lady doing their last commercial I saw yesterday or so. I guess she "Had to go?"
:D
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You mean that spot didn't make you want to run right out and get a new Toy-oota?


Rob, some of WREC's absentee newspersons have the same issue.
 
Last year, Bernard Watson of Fox 13 did a story on John Ford where he mentioned Ford's many "agrarious" deeds, when he probably meant to say egregious.

Who knows, maybe agrarious is a particularly bad deed done to a farmer.

Just a couple weeks ago on the aforementioned Fox 13, Eric King had a piece about the assassination of Dr. King. He made reference to the trial of James Earl Jones.
 
Meepster said:
Some of my favorites have been recently...there is one Yankee guy (on 3 maybe?) who I saw once talking about "Obion County" (Union City) only he pronounced it as if it rhymed with Obi-Wan! Hilarious!
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I grew up there, so I know that that is common among non-natives of Obion County. But what always rankled me was when the locals called "OH-bine" County, like it only has two syllables. It actually has three. "Oh-BYE-un" County. Basically it should be pronounced to rhyme with "Orion" or "O'Ryan." It is a name of either French, Irish, or Indian origin, but no one seems to know for sure. The county is named for the Obion River, but no one knows where or how the river got its name. Obion is one of the few counties in Tennessee not named for someone. At least not directly. It is believed that Obion was the surname of an early explorer in the area, but that can't be proven or verified.

Now that I live here in the Nashville area, I saw a TV commercial here a few years ago for a furniture store in Murfreesboro. I knew the announcer was not local, since she said "Mur-FREEZE-boro." Again, that is common among non-natives. I am not sure why. Murfreesboro is pronounced just like it is spelled. And there are Murfreesboros in other states, too.
 
Native or not, Kacki Walton on "know recently sent out congratulatory KA-DOOZ (kudos) to the Memphis Youth Symphony for some reason...

Aren't "kadooz" the things you hum through?
 
Anybody remember when Royal Furniture started using a Little Rock talent on thier radio spots? He used the moniker, "Brother Hal" on the air - sorry I don't remember his real name. Their first schedule on WREC started on a weekend and he started out with, "Brother Hal, folks..." Only problem, people on this side of the river heard it as, "Go to Hell, folks..." due to his vocal style. We got irate phone calls immediately and no one could figure out why until midweek. We took a lot of heat for that and when we started answering with the truth, many listeners thought we were lying in our teeth! We heard other stations had similar reactions for a few weeks until his style became more familiar! I never could figure out if Royal's management was smart or stupid to let it run its course. All advertising, even bad...
 
Kacky traces her broadcast beginnings back to Clarksdale, working with the late inimitable Early Wright. "Kadoo's" could have been a "Wright-ism" which Kacky brought with her to the 'KNO audio radience. Not a confirmed story, but a possibility.
I thoroughly enjoy hearing old tapes of Early Wright (he's unfortunately not making any new ones now), and would treasure hearing someone who is able to be that "real" on the radio. I would also admit that at the time he was doing radio I would have been too thick to "get" it, and not appreciated what I was hearing for what it was. In the same way, way back when I got my blues from the Allman Brothers, Clapton and the like; nowadays I listen to the blues stuff on WEVL and find the most enjoyment in songs which sound like they were played on rubber-band guitar strings, with vocals I can't quite make out.
 
Royal has come a long way with their new spokeswoman. I might get in the market for one of those Serta's real quick if she would be there to help me test them out.

This could be a whole new area of debate...the hottest babe in company ads.....

I have been turned off by the Homer Skelton girl who always reminds me I am going to like the way they do business as she crosses her hands, pushes her tits out and tries that sexual tone. Not impressed at all.

Boy, the Watson's girl has lost it over the years. Haven't seen her in a bikini in years.
 
During my very first newscast at the UofM radio station (1980), I remember a large sign hanging above the microphone that read: "Says is pronounced SEZ not SAYS!"

There was a new announcer working the weekend shift at a Christian AM back in the mid-80's. We had just added a debut song from an artist named Geoff Moore a day earlier. On Saturday evening, he introduced the tune this way: "Here's a brand new song from someone that you will definitely hear from again - This is Where Are The Other Nine - from GEE - OFF Moore" He was noticably embarrased when I called him to say that the artist's first name is pronounced Jeff.

If you're not sure, don't say it.
 
Back in high school (when I think back on all the... oh, that's another post!), I had a World History teacher who would let me bring in UPI copy from my shift the day before to read as fodder for a current events discussion. One day I read a story about a happening in GAW-tee-er Mississippi, and my teacher (being from the coast) instructed me in the finer art of French influence on the English language (go-SHAY).
 
Back in my dark, young days, I worked in Hattiesburg, MS (a nice town, really). It's bad when those on your air can't pronounce the name of the town. One often got, "Hatt-iss-berg." Wrong.

Over the years, several stations have put up signs saying something like, "It's pronounced 'Hatt-eez'-burg.'" Sad, really. Especially, considering the town was named after a woman named "Hatty," which should make the pronunciation obvious.

BTW: OK, I'll sound a bit thick here, but, I'll ask anyway. This string is dubbed "QC." Surely, there is an obvious reason for this, but I am missing it. In my world, "QC" means "Queen's Counsel." I suspect, that is not the case here.

Enlightenment?

DE
 
> teacher (being from the coast) instructed me in the finer art of French influence on the English language (go-SHAY).

Actually, Rob, your teacher was a bit off. I lived in Gautier while in High School. Locally, it's pronounced, "Goat'-chay." Odd, I know.

Another Gulf Coast issue is Saucier, a small town, just north of Gulfport. One might expect it to be pronounced, "So-shay," or "Saw-see-ay." Wrong. It's pronounced, "So'-sher." Yup; lots of rednecks up there. And, they will correct you.

And, let's not even talk about pronouncing "Pecan," just east of Pascagoula. Don't get me started...

DE
 
I listened to Early Wright when I was in high school in Clarksdale '60-'63 and even met him once while on a visit to the WROX "studios" in the tired old Alcazar Hotel. I worked for WKDL and Robert MacIntosh in 1962-3 (just ran church audio on Sunday mornings). That's all I can claim on that score, but I did work with the equally legendary Joby Martin on WJDX in Jackson in 1967. He ran a wonderful show Saturday mornings early, sponsored by King the Tailor. I worked opposite him on WJDX-FM and we often chatted before I went upstairs to start the morning playing "funereal" music, as Alon Bee used to call it! Joby was always a delight and a most gracious man.
 
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