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Could somebody please tell the local newscaster who has recently started doing the news updates in the morning that there is no “t” in the word across? As in, “Let’s take a look at what’s making news acrossT our region.” I mean, come on! Has anyone else noticed this? —I Could Do a Better Job
This article appears in Mar 4-10, 2010.
27 Comments
tell me aboot it!
dey don’t know how to say nuttin atoll.
my girlfriend does this all the time…drives me nuts. i guess not everyone is perfect like me.
Same with Hub-Unit – is this a Pictou County thing? It used to drive me crazy – now I just shake my crowbar fist at him then sigh.
You should hear them try to pronounce Pictou out here.
It’s not just here. In New Brunswick, people do it too (English people)!
Or Yanks asking for directions to Shoe-Ben-a-Caddie. It’s near Musk-oi-Doo-Bit.
write a complaint about it if it bothers you that much. Seriously, if you complain about it there are probably more that do too.
You should axe him to be aware of his pronounciation.
acrossed has always been a pet peeve of mine!
well shit mr. dictionary, why don’t you apply then?
Perhaps he just got back from the warshroom or from cleaning out his chimley. Yous could be more sympathetic.
I had to train myself out of this one…I picked it up from my dad who’s originally from Annapolis County.
My pet peeve is Chicago…& those asses who say chicargo…there is no R in Chicago !!!!
I haven’t heard the accrosst, I have no outside TV signal.
worsh the dirshes….
Those are the ones that piss me off… the people that put an R in every fucking word.
yeah, my cousint does that….
Chimley, acrosst, cousint, interact, Sayer-day, Valentime’s Day . . . all very grating but none of them bug me as much as “fillum” instead of FILM.
I think it’s rare that people mispronounce FUCK, or FECK as in Father Ted
The one that grinds my last nerve is “spaded” as in: I just got my cat spaded.
Not only do they use the wrong word…they use it for both sexes.
I use Feck in the workplace. I had a Irish co-worker one time who was in on the joke once though. “Feckin’ women’s knickers!”
Acrosst would actually be valid in normal talk, I mean, we generally talk pretty fast on the east coast, and that’s a good part of our accent really. The written word, however, not so much. But I guess it really does depend on the editor, and potentially the editorial style of the article.
I hate it when people say “shed-ule” instead of “schedule”. Makes my eye twitch!
Also love the people that say “drawl” (draw) and “sawl” (saw) ….totally friggin annoying….GOD
Speaking of newscasters/reporters, anyone notice how Dan MacIntosh says his name? “I’m Dan MaaacIntosh”. I get a kick out of it 😀
Dan MaaacIntosh grates on my nerves! The reporters for this station look as though they had been on a binge before work such as the political reporter, the CB guy, the PEI guy, hell it’s all of them!
Richard Zurowski does the same thing…. “I’m Richard Zuuuuuurowski…..” Kind of weird.
Oh yeah….I forgot about “wench” instead of winch….That’s just an east coast thing though I think.
One that people seem to get wrong frequently is how to use “Taser” as a verb. It isn’t “Tase”, and the past tense isn’t “Tased”, because the name Taser is an acronym. So really, it ought to be “don’t Taser me bro!”, although I guess that mightn’t have been as funny.
Oh god, please don’t be that horrible excuse of a show “BT”….it makes me want to pull my teeth out with a spork.