Radio Ad Mispronunciation

Wednesday, 23 Feb 2005 | Humor, Pet Peeves

There's a radio station I listen to on the way to work which has been running a commercial for a lending institution. At the very end of the advertisement, as is customary, they mention the company's name and telephone number. It's a toll free number beginning with 1-800. The announcer pronounces it one eight HUNDERD [sic] not once, but multiple times. Every time I hear that commercial I focus on him saying hunderd instead of hundred.

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Hieu said at 2:41 PM on Wednesday, February 23, 2005

hmmm. They do that in Texas, too! Hundred becomes "hunderd", wash becomes "worshed", time (which rhymes with dime) becomes "tam" (which rhymes with dam). Sometimes I find myself repeating these words over and over, just to hear myself sound like them :-D

disneymike said at 3:10 PM on Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Oh come on, I bet you ARE one of them and say things incorrectly all the time. Wait a minute. I'm a Texan. I was born in Texas. Oh, but I didn't live there long enough to learn those bad habits! ;)

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