TEMP-PER-AH-TURES.
If you find one who doesn't say TEMP-A-CHERS, let me know. Diction, folks, on your most important and most often used word.
Pet peeve.
"I am no longer at Komo 4." Thanks. Longtime Weather Anchor Rebecca Stevenson confirms that she left the station just before Christmas. Her last Facebook posts are 12/17. She has the Seattle station Quintafecta, having worked at the old NWCN, KING, KIRO, KCPQ and KOMO. Looks like her decision. Wants a new chapter. She was doing mainly weekend evenings for KOMO. Perhaps Stella Sun will move there. She has been sharing weekend mornings with Theron Zahn.
Disagree. Annunicating the A sounds a bit old-fashioned and affected.
ReplyDeleteThe a in temperature has nearly become silent for 90% of English speakers over the decades. Happens with time with a lot of 4-5 syllable words or long town names. See: vegetable or Worcestershire.
Thanks for chiming in. Your explanation has sure taken my tempercher down!!
ReplyDeleteDan Rather had the same issue in his early broadcast days, mispronouncing words like heroin with her-oyne, variable as var’ble and miniature as minichoor. According to Dan, a pissed off English teacher called him on the air several times to correct his pronunciation. You can watch the video footage of his reporting on Hurricane Carla (that more or less made his career if the Bush Memogate scandal destroyed it), saying "hurikhan" instead of "hurricane". It's Texas, we get it.
ReplyDeleteMiniature is another good example. Min-ah-chur sounds modern day American human. Min-i-ah-chur, while proper, sounds like Siri. Robotic. Sorry, Dan Rather’s English teacher critic! I prefer the conversational version.
DeleteNow if today's TV journalists can write a solid "LEE-D"
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