Turned me right off.
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The French call their city "Paree"... but we Americans call it "Paris". As long as I'm an American from Boston, I'll continue to call it "Paris".
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You hear a lot of this phoney pronunciation from people on National Public Radio and other liberal media outlets. It always has some sort of elitist twinge to it.
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Sorry but I miss Bush butchering the language. At least he didn't overpronouce stuff on purpose. Natalie Jacobson on Channel 5 used to be the worse. Give her a Latino name or Serbian town to pronouce and she was off to the races with her own ethnic version of the name. Techs at the station told me she was a real Jerk anyway.
~Couldn't believe it when I heard Obama do the same thing.