Dec 19
Note to CBC: there is a T in Putin
Cats: CBC Radio, Uncategorized|OK, Time Magazine has named Russian President Vladimir Putin as its person of the year.
Now, will somebody pal-lease tell the CBC radio announcers to pronounce the man’s name correctly.
It’s Putin with the T, not Poo’n like CBC announcers seem to think. A couple of months ago this typist accused the CBC of lazy elocution in the post “Disputin’ the pronunciation of Poo’n.
And I thought I detected an improvement. But there it was again today on the 4 pm radio broadcast: Poo’n.
You don’t necessary expect it from the person on the street, but the national broadcaster should be able to do better than Poo’n, shouldn’t they?
December 19th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I like the word poo. And I love poo jokes.
December 19th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Welcome back Espanya, it’s great to see you again
December 19th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
Weird, I haven’t noticed the mispronunciation at the CBC, but I now I shall be vigilant for it.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:23 am
Last year the BBC lampooned Geo Bush for his pronunciation of Poooo’in., the idea being that a world leader should know better.
I’m applying the same expectation to a national broadcaster.
That said, I heard another broadcast at 10 in which the broadcaster put the T back in Putin. So they are trying.