[BC] Local pronunciations

[David Lawrence]

On 12/21/05 8:06 AM, one Scott Fybush <scott at fybush.com> wrote:

 > For a while, our Fox affiliate had its weather coming from
 > Sinclair's "News Central" operation near Baltimore, and those
 > forecasters must have been coached decently, as it was rare to hear
 > them slip up.

I've always thought that being a weather presenter for the Weather Channel
on TV or for Accuweather or another radio equivalent must be as much a
tremendous education in local area pronunciations and geography as it is in
predictive meteorology.

Having had to vocalize and pronounce every single city in the country for
AOL's IVR system, I really pride myself on knowing as many local
pronunciations as I can (loo' uh vul in Kentucky, woo' burn in
Massachusetts, kee wah' nee in ill uh noy', etc.), and I wish that as you
all posted these things, you actually did what Sid did - add phonetics.
Maybe we could start a list, broken out by state, province and country -
I'll volunteer to put it up on my site, along with the ability for visitors
to correct them. Web site visitors love, as you know, to correct people. :)

You can send them to me directly as well.

David
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