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How can we ever trust the news on ACN again?
By adamg on Sun, 11/09/2014 - 10:19pm
The Newsroom does its ripped-from-yesterday's-headlines version of the Marathon bombings, including the climactic manhunt in Waterton. You know, right next to Cambirdge and Earlington. Also, even New Yorkers should know the Marathon doesn't end at the Lenox Hotel.
Still, as Michael Ratty notes:
Great performance tonight by Sam Waterstown.
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Fringe
I watched one episode of Fringe and couldn't get past the geography mistakes. Like labeling the Hancock building as the FBI headquarters (we're not that much of a police state that the FBI would occupy the most visible building in town) or BPD responding to an incident in Central Square.
Fringe also thought the Old
Fringe also thought the Old State House was Harvard
Fringe
Love this thread!
No, WE'VE been pronouncing it
incorrectly, Adam. Aaron Sorkin is a GENIUS, Adam. The problem with our media today, our society today, isn't liberals or conservatives, or black and white, it's pronunciation. Think about that for a second, Adam. We are no longer the greatest nation on earth. Why is that, you ask, or maybe you didn't, but I'll ask, and then, then I will tell you. Pronouncing the names of our communities correctly is at the very heart of our democracy, Adam. I don't think you understand that. I don't think AMERICA understands that. It's Waterton. It's WOR-CHESTER. It's PeaBODY. And HAVHERHILL. It's in those small towns all across this land that our community is breaking down, Adam, and why? We don't even know what to call ourselves anymore, Adam. We got lazy. The media got lazy. The politicians got lazy. You, and I, and everyone reading this got lazy and self-satisfied and all of a sudden, we're being schooled by a fictional television anchor and the brilliant (bleeping) genius Aaron Sorkin. Happy Adam? Or are you just dissatisfied enough to want to do something about it? Are you?
That was great. You captured
That was great. You captured the incredibly annoying Sorkin-speak-style. No one in real life talks the way Sorkin writes.
How closely do you expect TV and movies
to reflect "real life?"
pronounciation
Sounds like you didn't get lazy enough
Need a round-up
Someone care to summarize the egregious pronunciation/geographical mistakes (other than those mentioned) so I can focus my anger?
Four dead, hundreds injured and libs worry about pronunciation?
Four dead, hundreds injured at the hands of Islamic terrorists and you libs worry about pronunciation? Really, really shameless.
A stupid TV show and cons worry about reality?
A TV show with a cast of well known actors and a famous producer can't figure out how to pronounce a town name and you angry fulminators are unable to tell the difference between entertainment and real life? Really, really pitiful.
Not related to Aaron Sorkin: ham vs um towns
My boss just moved here from Florida. He told us he made an offer on a house in Hinge-HAM. We kindly explained that he's moving to Hing-um. He's not moving to Rayn-ham or Ded-um either. He's nowhere near Ware-ham or Wrenth-um. We could have gone on but it looked like he was ready to move back to Orlando by then.
Needham and Dedham
Are right next to Flotsam and Jetsam, right?
I work with people across the
I work with people across the country, mostly by phone. I usually wait and let them try to pronouce Worcester. That city name seems to have the toughest pronounciation. Even Woburn (Woe-burn) and Haverhill (Have-er-hill) can be tough for people not around here, but Worcester wins!
I would give Gloucester the
I would give Gloucester the nod over Worcester if only because most people have, hypothetically, pronounced the name "Worcester" as part of "Worcestershire" sauce. Gloucester is in Shakespeare so no normal people have encountered that one before.
May the sauce be with you
..Except that I knew at least one midwesterner in college who pronounced it "Wor-chester-shire sauce".
However, Gloucester is a
However, Gloucester is a fairly common town name. I was born in Gloucester, Virginia, and no one down there ever made a big deal out of the pronunciation.
There's a Gloucester VA, NC, NJ, NY, MS, ON, ME, NB, etc.
Come to think of it though I bet there are just as many other Worcesters......
Wooster
is how they spell it in Ohio.
In fairness
I remember after the Newtown shootings how long it took for people to stop calling it Newton--it's just irresistible.
I book ground transportation
across the country , and there's just as many cities and towns all over this country that I would never attempt to pronounce, like Bala Cynwyd Pennsylvania. I also book stuff here in Mass. from people calling from other states and they butcher em' all, with Worcester being the most butchered. Gloucester, Billerica, Woburn, Haverhill all of them, lol..
I had the tables turned on me
I had the tables turned on me when I was in London, trying to get information about the train-to-ferry-to-train to Amsterdam. The information guy I asked was telling me that I needed to take a train to "Harritch", which I didn't see on the map. He kept pointing at it until I said "Oh, Har-witch", at which point he said "Oh, yes, 'Har-witch'" with the most withering sarcasm I've ever experienced.
The first time I heard that
The first time I heard that Wilkes-Barre, PA is pronounced the same way as Tewksbury my mind was blown and much cred was established on future pronunciations.
Billerica?
Nobody from away could possibly butcher the pronunciation of Billerica as badly as its residents do.
Billericay, England isn't
Billericay, England isn't happy that its poseur cousin in the US couldn't manage to get the name right.
Well, I don't really care what the British one thinks
But could our Billericans at least put a little bit of one of those 'L's in?
My given name is Dickie
I come from Billericay
and I'm doing very well
had a love affair with Nina
in the back of my Cortina
a seasoned up hyena
could not have been more obscener
she took me to the cleaners
and other misdemeanours
but I got right up between her
rum and her Ribena
how about the Berliners?
the town here is pronounced BURR-lin
New Orleans
is a killer for me.
You mean
Knarl-ins?
Leominster is the hardest IMO
Going to college in Worcester the name came up and I had no clue how to pronounce it. I took a best guess at "Leo-minster"
Nah.
It has nothing on Scituate.
I raise you the Quequechan
I raise you the Quequechan River
No fair
Don't go raising rivers. That's just showing off.