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Hurricane Dennis is bearing down on Florida, so we are watching The Weather Channel on TV. Hillary Andrews, is on the anchor desk and just used the word "irregardless" in her description of Hurricane Dennis' path. I'm not kidding. I have TiVO so I hit rewind to double check and yes, she did in fact say irregardless: "...irregardless of where the exact land fall takes place..." One would think media people, above everyone else, would have a better grasp (or grip, perhaps) on the English language! I'll give Hillary the benefit of the doubt and assume it was the person writing the copy that Hillary was reading from a teleprompter. Of course, just because you are reading something does not mean you have to say it! posted by Wendy Kurtz on July 9, 2005 12:26 PM
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It's a fine line on words. Many times during my radio show, I have let something slip out of my mouth and as it was leaving thought...oh my...why did I say something so stupid?
Then I beat myself up for the next 3 minutes until I'm back on again trying to say something intelligent. We all do this.
Most of the time, we are concentrating on timing, worrying if the clip is cued, or listening to the damn producer screaming in our ears while we are doing a broadcast.
Broadcasters, for the most part, know when they use wrong verbage or even make up a word. They are taught to let it go and not to draw attention to the mistake.
Please forgive her...I'm sure that night over beers, she and her co-workers toasted her new word of the day.
Thanks for the great blog Wendy!
PS I hope my spelling is correct.haha