broadcasters

[Beverly Flanigan]

What do you mean by speech impediment?  Brokaw (from South Dakota, not far
from my Minnesota roots) has a most annoying habit of inserting glottal
stops everywhere, but so does one of our secretaries, from southern Ohio.

At 01:55 AM 8/6/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>...In
>>the U.S. national news, I know Brokaw is Canadian.
>
>Peter Jennings is Canadian.  Brokaw is American and has the speech impediment.
>
>Rima


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Beverly Olson Flanigan         Department of Linguistics
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