Scott Shannon --- oops!

[trusty]

There is a town in North Georgia named Ellijay (ella-JAY), and my laughing reached Biblical proportions when I heard the new weather girl in Atlanta say, "There's a storm coming in from Elijah."



She didn't last long.

[GeorgeJ.]

Voicetracking doesn't need to be done hours or days before...with NexGen it can be done seconds before air...so you wouldn't have to be giving old information on the air..

While a song is rolling on the air you can still bring up the fade of that song & voicetrack the next intro, as long as you finish before the song ends..

So you can actually do "almost live" voicetracking..

[SFStatic]

This is absolutely true, but doesn't happen in the real world. In most cases, the VTs are done before a shift, or several days in a row, because the company doesn't want to pay a talent to be around all that time...if they did, the talent could do the show live. I had trackers come in 2 days a week, to track all 7 days, because that's all the company that owns Nexgen would pay them for...it was all about cutting full time staff and saving money.

If you had a manager who also tracked a show, it was easy to run in and delete a track and do a break live every so often, to make the show sound "live." This was also done at a place that used RCS Master Control...it can be done on any computer automation system.

[Robnoxious]

Or what about the state of Nevada? Is is Ne vah duh or Nay VAH dah, such as in Spanish. I prefer the latter, but many in the state claim the former.

If you live or were raised in the Silver State such as I you pronounce it (Ne-vadd-ah). Emphasizing VAH singles you out immediately as an out of towner or a transplant. My Mom was friends with then Governor Mike O'Callaghan and he told her a story about how it drives him crazy when people emphasize and drag out VAAH for the name of his state.

I never understood why locals pronounce Missouri (Mis-ur-AH) as if the last letter in the state is a short-a instead of the short-i it is. That might be more of the Midwest and Southern diphthongs colliding together.

[DavidKaye]

Most places where they have actual cattle, and Roe dee o's, if you said ro day oh, they'll run you down with their Ford pickup, and then plug you with the shotgun they have in the rack in the back window!

There are actual cattle and roe-DAY-ohs in the Salinas Valley where they hold roe-DAY-ohs.  As for being run down by pickups and shot with guns, I'm thankful every day that I don't live in Texas.  I wouldn't wish that region on anyone. 

California Roe-DAY-oh in Salinas:  http://www.carodeo.com/

Now, Prescott Arizona claims the world's oldest rodeo, dating back to 1888, but the Salinas rodeo predates it, going back to 1872.  So, I guess they have the right to call it a roe-DAY-oh, as the Good Lord intended.

[weav]

Now, Prescott Arizona claims the world's oldest rodeo, dating back to 1888, but the Salinas rodeo predates it, going back to 1872.  So, I guess they have the right to call it a roe-DAY-oh, as the Good Lord intended.

Heard a story yesterday about doing them in Spain, where they were very perplexed at the bulls being allowed to leave on their own hooves.  And you can bet they called them row-DAY-ohs there.

[SFStatic]

Hearing people murder foreign word pronunciations is not that uncommon. Note that some folks call Mt. Diablo "die-ab-lo." And don't even start on Benicia, which some locals call Buh nish uh, instead of the "e" sound it would have if correctly pronounced in Spanish.

[elchupacabras]

While discussing the term "rodeo", the term is hardly used in Mexican Spanish. "Charreada" or "jaripeo" are most often used. "Rodeo" simply means to "surround."

[Bowler Bob in Brisbane]

This topic came full circle for me yesterday morning as I was driving up the Peninsula on Highway 101 North, just past Anza St. exit while listening to KFRC 1550 (the True Oldies Channel)

There was a paid advertisement for some car dealership in Marin County on, and the announcer said that the dealership was located in "San RAH-fee-ell".

I couldn't help but literally laugh out loud at hearing that one, while thinking "where the heck was that spot produced?"

Certainly not here in the Bay Area!

Are you kidding me?

"San RAH-fee-ell"?

And he said it twice, which made it even more obvious.

Doesn't anybody check these commercials before airing them?

I guess not...

[Lkeller]

This topic came full circle for me yesterday morning as I was driving up the Peninsula on Highway 101 North, just past Anza St. exit while listening to KFRC 1550 (the True Oldies Channel)

There was a paid advertisement for some car dealership in Marin County on, and the announcer said that the dealership was located in "San RAH-fee-ell".

I couldn't help but literally laugh out loud at hearing that one, while thinking "where the heck was that spot produced?"

Certainly not here in the Bay Area!

Are you kidding me?

"San RAH-fee-ell"?

And he said it twice, which made it even more obvious. Doesn't anybody check these commercials before airing them? I guess not...

As I said earlier in the thread,  you can often tell a commercial is produced outside of the market if the word is pronounced correctly, as opposed to the improper pronunication used by locals.  "San Raf-ah-ell" is the proper Spanish pronunciation, so the announcer you heard was close. 

In LA, you hear the city of La Puente pronounced "La Pwen-tay" (proper Spanish), while most non Spanish speaking Angelinos say "La Poo-enty." .  Then there's the port city of "San Pee-dro."