The horror … the horror ….

Homer bell for orinenglish for pointing out how KO pronounces “horror.” He said it today on the Big Show (first segment, about halfway through).

On Language Nazi:

rrgirl: feb-yoo-ary. nails on the blackboard. is that one little “r” in the middle sooooo hard to say? does it have to rhyme with January? dictionay.com says either way is acceptable but I don’t get it.

KO drops the “r”. I guess he’s human, too.

CP: Shed-ule gets to me, but I try to be understanding because, after all, they are the British.

Scoop: I get paid to be grammar police. But there are things even I am not all that good with. Keith made another blunder on the radio recently, and now I can’t think of what it was, but he mispronounced the kind of word you would expect Keith to know and be one of the few people NOT to mess up.

Nice to know he’s, er, human.

Today he went between “Hah-nus” and “Hoe-nus” Wagner (the Wagner T206 card sold for over $2 million recently). I believe the correct pronunciation is “Hah-nus.”

A friend of mine says “toe-let” instead of “toilet.” When writing, “Wednesday” is abbreviated “Wens.”

I saw this during the Super Bowl and thought it was very funny:

I haven’t noticed any backlash at the ad for poking fun at immigrants and their accents. I think ethnic humor is more acceptable when everyone is a target and no one group is singled out.