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I always cringe when an area gets a new talking head who encounters, for the first time, a local place that only an outsider would say incorrectly. For example, in Baltimore County, there’s Towson: first syllable rhymes with cow - n00bs invariably call it “Toe-son.” I guess you really can’t blame the news-reader, but one would think that the locals could have a cheat sheet of stuff that everyone knows but an outsider wouldn’t.
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I see this all the time in the NY Metro area, and it really blows my mind. I don’t work in the news business at all, but you’d think that somewhere along the line someone would make sure that place names are pronounced correctly. And this happens even with well experienced reporters.
I figure if I know how it’s pronounced, they should also!
Thank you. I feel better now 