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August 31, 2009
There's no 'i' in jaguar
Every year it seems there are a couple of NFL announcers who can't seem to get their heads around the fact that Jacksonville's team is the "JagWahrs" — not "JagWires."
It's not just them, mind you: many people mispronounce the car the very same way, including several I know whom I never correct because it amuses me so.
Anyhow, I'd always thought it was just me being fussy, but looking online for the name of the Philadelphia Eagles' play-by-play announcer for last Thursday's exhibition game (it was Kevin Reilly), I happened on the comments up top here.
So I guess I'm not the only one.
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Language takes on a life of its own regardless of official usage, spelling or pronunciation. That is a truth you can take to the grave with you.
For instance, colonel has no 'R' in it, but I bet you pronounce it the way convention tells you to do so. The depreciated spelling tells you that it once did, but the language police decided that it fit more into French culture to spell it the way it is now. Military culture decided to go the other way regardless of how everyone else went, and thus those that used it the most won.
I hear several of my brit friends over the years throw out the Jag-U-are as well...UA should turn into a wah, but for some reason it is considered a more correct pronunciation than those on the continent when jags might actually roam freely.
Mostly I'm disagreeable because my roommate is a complete **** about the correct pronunciation, owning two that sit unrunning in the back yard (one simply can't turn off the heat and even in the middle of winter, running with the top down STILL doesn't minimize the impact of a v12 shoveling all its heat atcha!). Its amusing the first time you hear someone picked apart behind their back for using common parlance, but the third or fourth or eighty-seventh?
I ain't care for whut either way.
Posted by: clifyt | Aug 31, 2009 1:04:50 PM
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