Anybody notice how the news media mispronounces English words?

...Here are some examples:

1. The word "harass", used to be pronounced

hah-rass, now it is hair-riss.

2. Baghdad, normally pronounced bag-dad, is now bag-DAAD. (Shepherd Smith on Fox News)

3. On a Giant Food radio commercial, they gleefully announce that a product is "more than 1/2 price!" - I guess that means that it could be more than full price, and still be a sale item? They should have said less than 1/2 price.

4. This one took the cake. Brit Hume was talking about "CAN-NAW-BISS" - it is really cannabis, and pronounced "canna-bis" (marijuana).

...Anyone have any other examples?

Anybody notice how the news media mispronounces English words?
I am married to an American (Boston) and although living in England, visit the States regularly , and therefore have noticed far too many absurdities both in speech and affectation.

To describe anyting ranging from the smallest insignificance to that which could genuinely register enormous wonder...the word 'awesome' is used with irritating and sickening regularity! As for accents, any word or phrase adopted from the french language is spoken without any trace of a French accent, but more importantly sabotaged by stressing all the wrong syllables. The persistent use of 'You Guys' distresses me beyond measure, and 'zee' substituted for the letter pronounced 'zed'. Any or all of one's possessions or on describing an event or occurence, is a ramble of affectation and.. 'you knows'. resulting in a complete lack of specifics or substance, and almost always, all sentences tail away using the inadequate phrase...'and all that stuff' !

One of the most common habits. which so many have acquired is...to speak a statement {of fact] using a voice that rises in tone at the end of the sentence...so that it sounds like a question is being asked instead..Try saying '.I live in England' as though asking a question...it is too too absurd...But this world no longer employs logic as a guide to common sense... hence dirty hospitals, teachers removing the classics, prisons full of immigrant prisoners from other countries, a police force whos main concern is trapping motorists not criminals, judges who sentence inappropriately, because their train was late owing to the wrong kind of weather conditions
Reply:I guess that's how the rich folk speak, uppitty.
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Reply:You know how there are commercials for the news, right? Well, one day, I was watching some show on TV and the commercials come on. I'm not sure who as it's been some time ago, but one lady news reporter was talking about someone being indicted. She said it exactly how it looks: indicted instead of "indighted." It was pathetic, but funny.
Reply:oh yes me and my boy friend get a kick out of the news frequently as well....i think that the news people just have reading issues more then anything so when the word comes up they say it however they think it should be...the news caster on the channel i watch cant pronounce certain words right like "three" for example he say "chree" so now as a common joke we say "chree" also....what bothers me the most is how the news will re-word the same situation 6 different times....anyway.....
Reply:Put the subtitles on as well, they are a joke, spelling is awful and if it is a live feed it really goes **** up lol
Reply:You make good points. I never really noticed it until you said that. I think that's funny
Reply:This is nothing new.



Signed,

Someone who remembers the newscaster calling the country in southeast asia Veet Nim.
Reply:One of my biggest pet peeves is when people mispronounce nuclear. They say nuke-u-ler. I do believe even our own President mispronounces it that way!

The name of the planet Uranus used to be pronounced Ur-anus, but now, they say Ur-in-iss.

Those are the only two I can think of ofhand.

:)
Reply:Well Bush says "nucular" instead of "nuclear" and many people now say Of-ten instead of the silent T
Reply:who's to say if it's wrong or right. it's just part of communication. People have their own style of pronoucing things and if they don't pronouce it the way you pronouce it, it's not a big deal. It's just how it is, as long as you get the message then it's fine. Making a big deal out of it is not necessary because we actually don't know what is wrong and/or right, we just learn from others from our teachers and our teachers learn from their teachers but really when it comes down to it we don't know if it's actually right or wrong.
Reply:idea -



i-dee-ah



not i-dee-er
Reply:Italian = it-AL-yan it makes me sick to my stomach to hear people say "Eye-talian" There's no place named "Eye-taly"



Iran and Iraq = e-RON and e-ROCK - there's no long "I" there poeple! Nobody else in the world gets it wrong except the US media!
Reply:THEY DO R U SERIOUS
Reply:a lot of anchors have completely changed the word advertisment