Author Topic: Jeopardy! slammed by Yahoo News (Read 8538 times)

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #30 on:** October 06, 2013, 09:46:37 AM »

Here in Iowa: We have towns like Madrid (\"MAD-drid\"), Nevada (\"Neh-VEY-dah\") and Cario (\"kay-ro\").

And Michigan has Charlotte (SHAR-lott) and Milan (MY-lun), among others. I live a few minutes from a four-corners called Mikado, which is (MY-kay-doh).

And let\'s not forget that J!\'s sister show is just as much of a stickler on pronounciation most of the time.

You\'re not too far from Mackinaw, I mean, Mackinac Island, IIRC.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #31 on:** October 06, 2013, 11:31:51 AM »

And Michigan has Charlotte (SHAR-lott)

Wanna try again?

TLEberle · « **Reply #32 on:** October 06, 2013, 12:34:13 PM »

Some years ago a local bank ran a radio ad where someone was brought in to coach new out-of-state employees on how to say our peculiar-sounding town and river names; with the conceit that if you\'re from here you should be able to say Puyallup, Skagit and Snoqualmie, and if they didn\'t the employee would be branded as fake.

As to \'Brian\'s point: that\'s what a judge does; he judges what can be chalked up to accent and what can be filed under \"lack of knowledge.\"

SRIV94 · « **Reply #33 on:** October 06, 2013, 06:15:37 PM »

I guess this means Sofia Vergara won\'t be invited to Celebrity Jeopardy!.

She could just stand there and I\'d watch.

Twentington · « **Reply #34 on:** October 06, 2013, 07:38:11 PM »

And Michigan has Charlotte (SHAR-lott)

Wanna try again?

You take this one, you\'re closer.

Meanwhile, I\'ll work on finding someone who can pronounce \"Oscoda\" correctly.

TLEberle · « **Reply #35 on:** October 06, 2013, 08:26:44 PM »

That was a burn, y\'dink.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #36 on:** October 06, 2013, 10:57:38 PM »

And Michigan has Charlotte (SHAR-lott)

Wanna try again?

You take this one, you\'re closer.

Well, it seemed to be a big deal to you.

SHAR-lott is more or less how people would expect it to be said, which would make it a pretty lousy example if it wasn\'t completely wrong. The mid-Michigan community\'s name is pronounced shar-LOTT.