. . . especially when they do sports. The Houston Astros won their “match” against the Atlanta Braves. Next, Houston faces “Sin Loo-ey” in the NLCS.
Man, they can make even baseball sound all cosmopolitan and stuff!
Could you let this backward Briton know exactly what the announcers should have said, so I know what I’m laughing at?
You do realise how badly wrong CNN get the English football pronunciations? 
I’m not laughing ***at ** * them; I truly love the way the announcers’ accents, and the different phrasing used, break me out of the mundane. (And there ain’t nothing more mundane than baseball.) I’m not saying they *should * have said it any differently - if they did, the BBC wouldn’t be the BBC.
I guess if I’m laughing at anything, it’s the way the little differences stopped me short while I was drinking my coffee, getting dressed for work, and absently listening to the news. It pulled me back into the moment.
It’s fun to hear Baseball, a very blue-collar sport, described with what we in the States would consider a "cultured’ accent. It’s a welcome moment of cognitive dissonance.
A baseball game is always described here as a “game”, never a “match”. I think we tend to use the word “match” to describe one-on-one competitions - tennis, boxing, wrestling. When teams are involved, it’s a “game”. Generally.
The city in which the Cardinals play baseball is pronounced “Saint Loo-is”. But I think I’ll start using the BBC’s pronunciation.
You’re not backwards, you just don’t spreak proper American.
It’s strange - plenty of people here know that’s how it should be pronounced, but it nonetheless slips out wrong. I still can’t get into the habit of saying it, despite a year of living with a St Louisian (if that’s a real word…)
I admit that I get a kick when they say ‘Loss Ahn-gelees’.
Always with the long ‘e’ at the end.
C’mon, don’t tell me you guys on the other side don’t laugh when we try to pronounce Worcester.
It’s all Judy Garland’s fault .
Tell you what I love about it. It’s genuinely world news.
The other night I was listening to the World Service in bed. Main news items earlier had been Christopher Reeves died, Presidential election, bombs in Iraq. BBC World service: Nigerian general strike.
I used to listen to the news hour on the BBC World Service on shortwave radio. It was amazing how many of the stories went completely unmentioned by the US networks.