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[Frank Abate]

Brokaw is widely made fun of (on Imus, etc.) for having great difficulty
with medial L.  In words like "dollar" (pretty common in the news) he says
something like "DOW-er".  It gets pretty funny when the medial Ls pile up,
as in a word like "colloquially".  I expect his copy editors avoid such
words in preparing his material, and he probably cuts some himself in
rehearsing.  But once in a while you've gotta say "dollar" and other common
L-full words in reading the news.

I don't know the name for this phenomenon, but perhaps others do?

Barbara Walters of ABC has a similar problem, but more with R I believe.
You may recall how she was made fun of for it years ago by the late Gilda
Radner on Saturday Night Live, via the character "Baba Wawa".

Frank Abate