Pavarotte lives in infamy

[Mark Mandel]

(posted to both ADS-L and ANS-L)

I am listening to a pledge break on PBS television WLVT. They've been
playing a Three Tenors concert, and right now two station bureaucrats are
talking about Pavarotte. That is, they're talking about Pavarotti, but they
repeatedly pronounce the name /paev@'rate/: the American pronunciation of
"Pavarotte", whoever that is, not "Pavarotti".

Not to be confused with /dZu'sEpi 'verdi/ Giusepp*i* Verdi.

And the woman has been assuring us that Pavarotte will live in infamy.

m a m

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