Pavarotte lives in infamy

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:00 PM -0500 11/24/07, Mark Mandel wrote:
>(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".

Maybe they thought Pavarotti was a plural and hypercorrected to the
possible singular Pavarotte (on the assumption that the singular
*couldn't* have been "Pavarotto" or they'd have noticed).

LH

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