Tyrah Majors this morning on KOMO 4. Using WashDOT cameras to report on freeway backups in Tacoma due to a semi crashing into a barrier. Dispatching a reporter to cover a fire in Tacoma is not a priority. KOMO had no information as to whether the fire was caused by a vehicle or, as Majors alluded to in one of her reports, a possible lamp post fire. (!!!)
The location of the accident, which resulted in the death of the truck driver, near the 84th Street exit northbound I5. Just south of WAPATO PARK. Not WAPA-DOH, as Majors pronounced it. What is with young people and pronunciation of the letter ‘T’?
Do you order your hamburger with dohmatoes or without? Tomatoes/Dohmatoes, Wapato/Wapadoh.
Bullet IN, Bullet IN
April 30, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
It’s a hard ‘T’ but today’s generation pronounces it like: Bul-led IN. The ‘D’ in Bulled replaces the ‘T’ and the IN is emphasized. Drives me crazy! Butt IN. Push the butt-IN to ring the door bell.
Feng Shui
April 30, 2025 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
I went to the florist yesterday looking for Rose Butts to lay across my mantle, but it was her day off.
How you say?
April 30, 2025 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
During the Vietnam skirmish, a few of us youngsters, just learning the radio newsreading ropes, decided to rename some of the names in the newscasts into to something easier to say. Niet Dang Tuang became Jonathan Smythe etc.
Sayin' it wrong
April 30, 2025 at QZVX
Dick Ellingson says:
I was doing news on KFKF one Sunday and pronounced Sahalee about four different ways before surrendering with an apology. The phone lit up immediately.
I heard a national radio news guy say Pie-al-up WAH-shington when I was a kid. And a friend of mine, when he first came to Washington, pronounced Skamokawa SCAM-uh-COW-uh.
Tyrah may have been preoccupied from what she found in her purse after returning from her Roman Holiday.
And one Saturday at KMPS, a frantic listener called about a missing dog. My brain couldn’t figure out whether it was a pooch or a pup, so I announced that a lady in West Seattle had lost her poop. Dick Goodman ran in from the newsroom and smiled gleefully.
As Kay Kyser used to tell erring contestants on the College of Musical Knowledge, “That’s right, you’re wrong!”