News Ancors pronouncing the word "HUGE"

[CorCentral]

A very Huge fire becomes Uge(Yuge) on the news **LOL**

It's not a northern or southern thing because I've spent my life 50/50 in each area. Is it laziness?

 

[iamaelephant]

Never heard someone on the news pronounce words like that....

 

[Cuhulainn]

It's British, actually. Maybe they're trying to sound sophisticated. I have never noticed this, however, I do my best not to watch the news. I listen.

 

[Nohr]

hat's retty umb.

 

[CorCentral]

I watch CNN and FOX and have caught both networks saying it this way.

 

[mugs]

Donald Trump does that. Sounds stupid.

The dialect that most TV news people learn to speak (General American) is based around Iowa, not sure if that has anything to do with it.

 

[loup garou]

So? It's a valid pronunciation.

 

[Jeff7]

I've heard quite a few people who pronounce H-words like that.

Originally posted by: loup garou
So? It's a valid pronunciation.

And sadly enough, so is nü-ky-lar, at least according to MW. TFD seems to disagree.

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: loup garou
So? It's a valid pronunciation.

And sadly enough, so is nü-ky-lar, at least according to MW. TFD seems to disagree.

MW was always the dictionary that I relied on not to American-ise the English language.

 

[Molondo]

So why is the letter "K" in the word Knife?

 

[dethman]

why the heck did you leave the H out of anchors? if you are gonna criticize someone for leaving out an h....

 

[DrPizza]

"She's got uuuuge... tracts of land"

 

[FoBoT]

they are scottish


the scots say "UGE!"

 

[BD2003]

What really irks me is when condoleeza says "ah-LIES" instead of "AH-lies". In my entire lifetime, I've never heard anyone else pronounce it that way.

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: dethman
why the heck did you leave the H out of anchors? if you are gonna criticize someone for leaving out an h....

Finahly someone nohticed


DrPizza---- Uge tracts of what? Are there 2? Or 1? **LOL**

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
they are scottish
the scots say "UGE!"

I've heard Bill O'reily say it and he's Irish.

 

[T9D]

My dad says it like that. Drives me nuts. He also says "U-mans" instead of humans. He does it for everything that starts with an H and has a U next.

 

[SilthDraeth]

I am pretty sure that it doesn't really matter.

 

[CorCentral]

So, how would you pronounce He-Man without the "H"? Yee-Man? The Master of the HUNIVERSE!

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: CorCentral

Originally posted by: dethman
why the heck did you leave the H out of anchors? if you are gonna criticize someone for leaving out an h....

Finahly someone nohticed


DrPizza---- Uge tracts of what? Are there 2? Or 1? **LOL**

uhhhh... Monty Python and the Holy Grail?? Missed the reference??