You Name "It" - Pro-Nouns, Pronouncers...All Stars in Their own, right?

Namely: As in correctly naming the person, place, position, possession...let alone correctly Pro-nouncing...Which, if not practiced in the correct, regional, or even local vernacular, lead to...Er...Umm...Urgh!  Followed by public pro-nounce-meants (which, in our day, were made over what else, but the P.A.). Made in various states of...

Sorri-ness: "Sorry...my bad...I said I'm sorry, isn't that good e-nuff...?!" From gaffes, laughs, even collective (barely audible) "gasps!" - depending on where you sit, stand...All the way to "Come up and try it yourself!"  

Pre-Pro...Scribes: Well before bad pronunciations came into being, there were those literal, I mean literate types, that wrote it all down...the ones that had to invent some pho-names, I meant nemes...all those slash, well before hash marks came into being...as in daze of Old...Testament (ever try to pronounce, "extemporaneously"...look who's talking now😟🤣!)  As in speaking contemporaneously...

Did Ya' Know? There are over 100...of "them" -- not only the ones that are more "personal" in nature, that when miss-pronounced, could be taken quite...well, personally, of course. Then there's the ones that a lot has been made over "them, as well as they...thee" as of late. But what about when some...one has apparently not taken sufficient time, despite being an hour late, whose pronounce-meants go a byte out of context...

"Who's on...first?" Dual meaning and lingo...in the up-coming contexts, contests...ads Infinit-ummmm... 

Full coverage: Of not only who, with the correct spelling ("bee"), but how "they" prefer to be introduced to the rest of the world, how "their" regional die-elects...that if you don't bother to study, practice before stepping into the booth, in front of the Mike, could get you in some political hot water, get you replaced as a public pronouncer, whether you're covering the MLB All Star Game, with "It's" increasing international players, in various positions, the ones that you have come to "associate with" (popular reference these daze to remind your-self as well as all "those others" out there..."left, right, centrist" (seeing all the connectivity, ways to identify with⚾,🏁waving...)...

Little, did Y'all know: That over here, as in "USA, USA, USA!" -- a chant We will be (hopefully hearing a lot of in the next coming weeks) -- reminding US who, what we associate, identify with...how, while we are all different, we are still...YOU-nited We stand, in one way or another...Speaking of...correct speaking...the amount of schooling it takes for news "anchors" to go through, to rid them-selves of regional dialects, to all sound "Vanilla"-ish, as in what "they" accuse us Midwesterners of...not having one, as being rather "bland"...taking a neutral position..."Who do you think you are...Switzerland?!"

Like I said..."Anyways" Which became a default when one notable tell-a-caster came to realize that, while his pronunciations of two key positions, that apparently took an extra hour beyond the projected "LIVE!" telecast, were still a byte out of alignment...

Putting Paws on Pause: Or putting "It" another way, giving our prized mascot a few days off...the one that many name, after so many new ones have come to town...the answer to the question..."Who's your Tiger...now?" As if You possess "them". Anyways, it also brings to mind, once again, the power of language, and limits of "Eh, Aye..."

Putting Parisians on Notice: Especially the ones that tend to have the tendency to look down upon US when we mis-pronounce "Their" menu items...other-wise known as "butchering" others' language...before You, the ones covering either the MLB or even more Inter-national events coming up, try your fancy, schmancy, high falutin' pronunciations of the city with which a lot of US around here identify with, the one that you will likely remind US that was "founded by (get ready to hear this a byte nasally...) Antoin de la Mothe Cadillac..." Yeah, but did y'all over there also know that, in these more modern times, where we co-called "Hail!" from is also represented simply by the "Old English D"😁😔...

Isn't It Grande? A question we've heard so numerously, a host of vernaculars, contexts, that we may have even "tuned out" on occasion. But her, on behalf of the host city, country...The answer to the age old question..."A rose by any other name..." as In La Vie En Rose" which, depending on your translator, can mean "life in happy hues...rose colored glasses...life is pink...whatever..." The version of which, we will likely hear as so-called "bumper music" in the coming weeks, in the voice of Edith Piaf (did I pro-nounce it correctly?) but I my-self have come to associate with the one and only..."Satchmo!"  "What a Wonderful World"🎵 indeed, Mr. Armstrong.

"So there!" As in...

Putting "It" Simply: As in "simplicity is the keynote, of all true elegance..." Saying more, with less...wordy-ness...😩

Tune in, in the coming daze, weeks to see, hear how "They" and Me do it...


   

 

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