Friday, April 30, 2010

Mark Howard is ready for Emma's Flowers commercial

It kills me to hear someone pronounce foyer as foy-ay. It's totally wrong and no case can be made for it. Another is pronouncing forte as for-tay. It's fort, in sound. The "e" is silent. Nobody gets that one correct.

The prize, however, for trying to sound so so erudite and failing badly goes to The Sports Zone's Mark Howard, who in a five-minute stint on an April 30 Friday morning broadcast pronounced vase as "vaz" (the third choice preference), bouquet as "boo-kay" (the second choice preference) and cravat as "kra-vot" (a non-word).
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