FW: Border States and South-Midlandisms

[Frank Abate]

larry h said:

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More on Tim McCarver:

Those broadcasts (of the Giants-Cards playoff series on Fox) have
been entertaining from a dialectological perspective.  There was an
interesting exchange between McCarver and his partner--an argument,
really--that began when McCarver read a commercial promo for a movie
that would be opening in various "theAters" (second syllable stress,
with tense /ey/ vowel) and his partner (was that Joe Buck, who should
know better, or someone else?) immediately jumped on him for the
presumable yokelism just committed.  McCarver, in his own defense,
pointed out that a lot of people in the states surrounding where they
were doing the game from (St. Louis) pronounce it in exactly that
way, a point which his partner was willing to concede (while probably
muttering under his breath about what THAT tells us).

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McCarver's partner on Fox baseball (regular season and now in postseason) is
indeed Joe Buck, son of the late, great Cardinals (baseball AND football, at
one time) broadcaster Jack Buck.  Joe was raised in St. Louis, but is so
studied a broadcaster that he might have fallen prey to schoolmarmism.

btw, I recall that there were some ADS-L postings recently on Jack Buck,
just after his death.  He popularized a few expressions.

Frank Abate