Who's Counting Anyway?

"...An athulete with one giant weight off his shoulders."

Carl Quintanilla, NBC 8/14/08

Since when is "athlete" a three-syllable word?

WELL, IT WAS SORT OF A GOAL

Yesterday morning a local television reporter was doing one of those cutesy (but lame) Halloween pieces that, for some reason, broadcast companies think we really want to watch.

Instead of saying ghoulish (as in goo-lish), she pronounced it goalish.

Make it stop!!!

BON JOUR

I can't expect the average person to know how to pronounce “Beignet,” but I do expect a broadcaster on a national morning news show to know how to pronounce it.

It is not pronounced ben-yet.
It is pronounced ben-yay.

This is a beignet. And they are freakin’ delicious. Especially at the Café Du Monde in New Orleans.

Cj