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A new football coach at a State University in interview heard on radio talking about how he didn't get here the easy way but came up through the ranks, doing every job along the way, including, he said, "I've droven the bus..."
I'm not kidding. I heard it myself.
No matter, he's getting BIG bucks, and he's not teaching English.
In high school, I had an English teacher who was a nice woman, but she was not a particularly good teacher. Especially frustrating to me (even as a lowly 10th grader) were the teacher's frequent mispronunciations.
I distinctly recall that a girl in my class was reading a short story aloud, and she came upon the word, "Yosemite", which she did not know how to pronounce.
She asked Mrs. Forrester for help with the pronunciation, and the teacher loudly intoned, "That's pronounced YOES-MIGHT, my dear!"
In high school, I had an English teacher who was a nice woman, but she was not a particularly good teacher. Especially frustrating to me (even as a lowly 10th grader) were the teacher's frequent mispronunciations.
I distinctly recall that a girl in my class was reading a short story aloud, and she came upon the word, "Yosemite", which she did not know how to pronounce.
She asked Mrs. Forrester for help with the pronunciation, and the teacher loudly intoned, "That's pronounced YOES-MIGHT, my dear!"
Yikes, indeed.
To my young mind at the time (early 1960s), it just seemed that knowing how to pronounce the name of one of the most famous national parks should be part of someone's Fund of General Knowledge. And, as the years pass, it appears to me that many people now have a smaller Fund of General Knowledge than they did years ago--which, IMHO, is frightening on several levels.
In high school, I had an English teacher who was a nice woman, but she was not a particularly good teacher. Especially frustrating to me (even as a lowly 10th grader) were the teacher's frequent mispronunciations.
I distinctly recall that a girl in my class was reading a short story aloud, and she came upon the word, "Yosemite", which she did not know how to pronounce.
She asked Mrs. Forrester for help with the pronunciation, and the teacher loudly intoned, "That's pronounced YOES-MIGHT, my dear!"
My tenth grade English teacher (the year we were doing American literature) pronounced Garcia as gar-sha and Lanier as lain-yer.
My tenth grade English teacher (the year we were doing American literature) pronounced Garcia as gar-sha and Lanier as lain-yer.
I have found that folks who grew up prior to the '50s seem to use those same waspy mispronunciations of..."foreign" names.
In US History class, we learned about The Letter To Garcia, which my history teacher pronounced as, "Gar-sha".
And, a film that she showed in class also featured the same mispronunciation of that name!
IIRC, this was related to our entry into The Spanish-American War.
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No matter, he's getting BIG bucks, and he's not teaching English. 
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