I ask, someone answers
Below, I ask:
And why does News 2 spell Elizabethton phonetically?
A reader in the news biz sent me an email stating:
On your site you ask: “And why does News 2 spell Elizabethton phonetically?”
I have a simple answer. The story came from the Associated Press Broadcast Wire. That feed is intended for TV and radio stations, but not Web sites. Unfortunately, TV stations like WKRN and WATE subscribe to that one.
WATE does not publish wire stories without editing out pronouncers and making sure they conform to a style that’s appropriate for a Web site. It appears that WKRN does not, or perhaps the pronouncer in that story just slipped through the process.
So, there you have it.
August 4th, 2004 at 8:58 am
I called my good friend who went to high school there to ask him about the pronounciation. Of course he lives in San Diego now and he still was asleep.
Apparently Elizabethton’s real syllables sound very similar to “Kiss my ass”
August 4th, 2004 at 9:27 am
I wonder how they write the pronunciation of Shelbyville. Near as I can figure, it would be something like “SHEV’-l.”
August 4th, 2004 at 9:34 am
And of course my town of Maryville is pronounced Murvul