Pronunciation

Saturday, December 16, 2006

KPBS Public Broadcasting

Audio

Aired 4/19/09

Say what?

If there’s one language pet peeve that grates on people’s nerves more than anything else, it’s the mispronunciation of words. In fact, pronunciation authorities can’t even agree on the correct way to say orthoepist—which means “an authority on pronunciation”! Richard and Martha will expose some of the worst offenses in spoken English.

And Quizzicist John Chaneski will stop by with a Verbivore Challenge all about baseball teams.

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