[BC] Local pronunciations

[Steve]

Sid...

Quick question..

Is Dale Dorman still at WRKO? I remember when they celebrated his like 25th
year or something. He's probably gone by now. I worked with Dale at KFRC in
San Francisco. Funny guy.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sid Schweiger" <sid at wrko.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:21 AM
Subject: [BC] Local pronunciations


> >>>It is always amusing when an air personality enters a market and
> >mis-pronounces local place-names. At X-Star's station in Rogers City,
>
> >Michigan, with many Polish and Indigenous place names, there was a
> >pronunciation guide, and it was absolutely necessary.
>
>  And sometimes it is just SO glaringly obvious to the locals that it
> boarders
>  on insulting.
>  Medina may be pronounced med-EE-na everywhere in the world, except
>  in med-EYE-na Ohio, so that's a mistake that stands out.
>
>  The correct pronunciation of the Cuyahoga River is understandable,
> though.
>  k-eye-ah-HOG-ah is an old local indian word that roughly translates
> to
>  crooked river. ( that burns with real fire in downtown Cleveland )<<
>
> Here in Massachusetts, you can always tell the out-of-towners.  We have
> a raft of place names that are pronounced nowhere near what they look
> like.  A few examples:
>
> Peabody (PEE-buh-dee)
> Woburn (WOO-burn)
> Dedham (DED-hm) (similarly, Needham, Raynham, Wenham, Stoneham and a
> few other "hams," except for:)
> Framingham (FRA-ming-ham), Petersham (PEE-ters-ham), Waltham (WAL-tham)
> and Wareham (WARE-ham)
> Gloucester (GLOS-ter)
> Stoughton (STOW-ton)
> Worcester (WUSS-ter, or as the locals call it, WUSS-tah)
> Martha's Vineyard (second word is pronounced VIN-yid)
>
> and our grand prize winner, the one every greenhorn gets wrong:
>
> Leominster (LEM-ins-ter).
>
> We also have a few which can be used in jokes, as in:
>
> "Where are you from?"  "Athol."  "What did you call me?"
> "What two Massachusetts cities were named after a governor of the
> 1960's?"  "Peabody and Marblehead."
>
>
>
> Sid Schweiger
> IT Manager, Entercom Boston LLC
> WAAF - WEEI AM/FM - WMKK - WRKO - WVEI
> 20 Guest St / 3d Floor
> Boston MA  02135-2040
> Phone: 617-779-5369
> Fax: 617-779-5379
> E-Mail: sid at wrko.com
>
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