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Scott Shannon --- oops!

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I just heard Scott Shannon on 1550 KFRC mention the Bay Bridge closing causing "all kinds of problems in San Francisco"

Problem is the bridge opened earlier today (Tuesday)
 
On the subject of "oops...voice-tracking," couple days ago, heard a jock on 103.7 refer to Antioch as, "Anti-auch," hard 'ch' sound, as in 'chair."

Obviously, the dude ain't from around here.
 
sandwix said:
On the subject of "oops...voice-tracking," couple days ago, heard a jock on 103.7 refer to Antioch as, "Anti-auch," hard 'ch' sound, as in 'chair."

Obviously, the dude ain't from around here.
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He's also kind of a dumb-a**. Antioch is an ancient Greek city, and there's also Antioch, Indiana and Antioch, Ohio - home of the well known Antioch University - which has satellite campuses in Seattle, Los Angeles, and a couple of other cities.

You don't have to be from around here to know it's pronounced "ant-e-ock."
 
sandwix said:
On the subject of "oops...voice-tracking," couple days ago, heard a jock on 103.7 refer to Antioch as, "Anti-auch," hard 'ch' sound, as in 'chair."

Obviously, the dude ain't from around here.
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I'm not from Tennessee but even I know how Antioch is pronounced. I'm not from Central Massachusetts and even I know Worcester is pronounced, "wuss-ta" and Leominster is pronounced "Lemon-stir" and not like Leo the Lion. I actually heard a live jock pronounce Worcester as Worchester. ::)

Lkeller said:
Antioch is an ancient Greek city, and there's also Antioch, Indiana and Antioch, Ohio - home of the well known Antioch University - which has satellite campuses in Seattle, Los Angeles, and a couple of other cities.

You don't have to be from around here to know it's pronounced "ant-e-ock."
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There's Milan, Italy and then there's Milan (as in My-lun), Indiana. There's Amherst, New York and then there's Amherst (silent "h"), Massachusetts.
 
I've noticed that you can tell when announcers or jocks are from out-of-town when they pronounce the names of our cities correctly.


For example, they say "ConCORD" instead of "Kahnkerd" like most locals....or "San Ho-ZAY" instead of the typical local pronunication - "Sanazay."
 
I've lived in the Bay Area all my life, although not in S.J., but most broadcasting outlets I've listened to pronounce 'San Hozay' correctly(well, sort of...it would really be 'Sahn Hoh-seh'). The 'Sannazay' pronunciation occasionally crops up with sports guys talking about the Sharks(when they bother to name the city they play in), but for the most part, that variant pronunciation died with Herb Caen.
 
Years ago, I was working in news in SE Idaho. There was a fire that broke out on the "Annis Butte," but the new news guy, from out of town called it the "Annus Butt!" I rolled on the floor and died of laughter!
 
sandwix said:
On the subject of "oops...voice-tracking," couple days ago, heard a jock on 103.7 refer to Antioch as, "Anti-auch," hard 'ch' sound, as in 'chair."
Obviously, the dude ain't from around here.
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Mispronouncing "Antioch" isn't just a "blunder;" it's downright boneheaded! It's pronounced "Anti-ock" everywhere!

Although I'm reminded of an event at my former station here in Nashville. We had a prima donna/diva coworker there who lived in an apartment in Antioch (southeast side of Nashville) while she was working with us. One day, everyone got so frustrated with her, that they went outside, and, sort of facing southeast, in the general direction of Antioch from the station, they screamed out, "ANTI-CROTCH!!! I was working overnights while I was there, so I didn't witness this event, but I obviously knew the coworker in question, so I certainly understood the frustration with her!
 
onairb said:
I've lived in the Bay Area all my life, although not in S.J., but most broadcasting outlets I've listened to pronounce 'San Hozay' correctly
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Blues guitarist Freddie King composed a tune named "San Ho Zay." That's how he spells it.

Meanwhile, about Antioch, I'd love to hear someone say the "ch" using the back of their throat, Hebrew style.
 
sandwix said:
On the subject of "oops...voice-tracking," couple days ago, heard a jock on 103.7 refer to Antioch as, "Anti-auch," hard 'ch' sound, as in 'chair."

Obviously, the dude ain't from around here.
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Wait...are you talking about Antioch, TN? If you are, and you're referncing WPTQ as 103.7, then I dunno who it was....I grew up in Louisville, been down here in the BG area off-and-on for years, even had a childhood g/f move to Antioch, so I've always known how its said...The other two male jocks on 103.7 in BG...one also grew up in KY, the other in VA, but he's been in the BG area for 12 years...I doubt it was any of us!
 
Lkeller said:
sandwix said:
On the subject of "oops...voice-tracking," couple days ago, heard a jock on 103.7 refer to Antioch as, "Anti-auch," hard 'ch' sound, as in 'chair."

Obviously, the dude ain't from around here.
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He's also kind of a dumb-a**. Antioch is an ancient Greek city, and there's also Antioch, Indiana and Antioch, Ohio - home of the well known Antioch University - which has satellite campuses in Seattle, Los Angeles, and a couple of other cities.

You don't have to be from around here to know it's pronounced "ant-e-ock."
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Not that I'm the geography police, but the Antioch to which you refer as being in Greece is actually in what is now Turkey; just up the road from Syria, once part of the Byzantine and Persian Empire and yes, once known as the Empire of the Greeks. The good nuns beat this into my head in the seventh grade, it was all part of being Orthodox Catholic. Just sayin'.
 
Sometimes local names are challenging.

Ygnacio Valley Road is pronounced "ig-NAY-she-oh", but the town of Ignacio is pronounced "ig-NAH-see-oh". Microsoft's xvoice.dll text to speech engine actually gets it backwards, but another version of their TTS gets it right.

Also, the name "Bernal" is pronounced "BURR-null" when used to talk about San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood, but is pronounced "burr-NAL" when referring to the street and neighborhood in Pleasanton, even though both are named after the same Bernal family.
 
DavidKaye said:
Sometimes local names are challenging.

Ygnacio Valley Road is pronounced "ig-NAY-she-oh", but the town of Ignacio is pronounced "ig-NAH-see-oh". Microsoft's xvoice.dll text to speech engine actually gets it backwards, but another version of their TTS gets it right.

Also, the name "Bernal" is pronounced "BURR-null" when used to talk about San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood, but is pronounced "burr-NAL" when referring to the street and neighborhood in Pleasanton, even though both are named after the same Bernal family.
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Yes - I live in BURR-nal Heights. When I first moved here, I pronounced the name as I knew it - Ber-NALL. People would look at me funny, like I was some kind of snob.
 
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Yes - I live in BURR-nal Heights. When I first moved here, I pronounced the name as I knew it - Ber-NALL. People would look at me funny, like I was some kind of snob.
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I was born in Bernal Heights at 325 Montcalm St. and Alabama, and learned the proper pronunciation of my neighborhood at 3 years old.

Conversely, having lived in the Bay Area all of my life I didn't learn the proper pronunciation of "Worcester" until just a few months ago, lol.

"War-chester", "Wooster", what's the difference?

Apparently a lot!

I still remember the first time I found out that I had been pronouncing "Grinich" totally wrong.

After all, wasn't the Wicked "Witch" of the West "green"?

It is kinda funny when a radio personality from somewhere else comes here and says "New-ark", instead of "New-erk".
 
Agreed on that "New-ark", instead of "New-erk" pronunciation, Bowler Bob.
I chuckle when I hear the same thing...

In addition to Antioch and the other regions with mis-pronunciation problems,
here are two more from the North Bay:

Years ago, I would hear Saint Helena (Huh-LEE-nuh) incorrectly pronounced
like the town in Montana with the same spelling (HELL-uh-nuh)...

In my hometown Vallejo, we pronounced it "vuh-LAY-oh" back in the day.
Then in the 1990s, I heard it annoyingly pronounced "vuh-lay-HO" or the more
ridiculous "vah-HAY-ho" (the latter on a 1989 RTO-Rent-To-Own radio spot,
which I have on a KNBA aircheck)...

Then again, it should be properly pronounced Vie-YAY-ho, if we were to
implement the Spanish "LL" usage...I fondly remember Paul Revere And The
Raiders making fun of the town's pronunciation during a concert skit at the
Solano County Fair in 1994...

I am surprised an outsider has not pronounced that West Contra Costa town, Rodeo,
as "ROE-dee-oh," 'sted of "roe-DAY-oh" - or have any of you heard it already?
--jay
 
Or what about the state of Nevada? Is is Ne vah duh or Nay VAH dah, such as in Spanish. I prefer the latter, but many in the state claim the former.
 
djj said:
I am surprised an outsider has not pronounced that West Contra Costa town, Rodeo,
as "ROE-dee-oh," 'sted of "roe-DAY-oh" - or have any of you heard it already?
--jay
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I am adamant in my pronunciation of the cow show as a "roe-DAY-oh". The pronunciation is said that way in much of California, but most especially the Salinas/Monterey area, where you will *never* hear the abomination "ROE-dee-oh".
 
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