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Do any weather anchors know how to pronounce?




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.

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  1. AnonymousJune 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM

    Disagree. Annunicating the A sounds a bit old-fashioned and affected.

    The 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.

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  2. Wayne LJune 15, 2026 at 10:19 AM

    Thanks for chiming in. Your explanation has sure taken my tempercher down!!

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  3. AnonymousJune 15, 2026 at 12:47 PM

    Dan 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.

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    1. AnonymousJune 15, 2026 at 10:08 PM

      Miniature 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.

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    2. AnonymousJune 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM

      Now if today's TV journalists can write a solid "LEE-D"

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