Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 03, 2011 at 01:45:14 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Pronunciation-in the US posted by David Maxwell on September 02, 2011 at 06:50:32:
In the US, the three major radio (and now TV) networks usually just provided a news summery once an hour (usually about 5 minutes) to the local radio stations.
Which helps to explain my ignorance; my main encounters with US broadcasting were on trips where I would watch the TV news in the evening. Otherwise, I had a PA who. like me, loved jazz, so as we arrived and left the airport in the hire car, her first job was to find the local jazz station. We wouldn't need to touch the tuning again. Sometimes there were wonderful serendipitous moments; one year we were heading out to Fort Irwin in the California desert. We noticed that on the way out to I15, we could divert to a route through the L.A suburbs that for several miles followed the old route 66, so obviously we took that. On the way there, still in the LA suburbs, the radio played 'Route 66'. 'Get your kicks on route six-six'. Ah! The power of cheap music...
For some time we drove alongside a very pretty candy red Porsche 356. It looked so delicious and was driven by a chap, obviously obsessed with Look, dressed in an impeccable dark suit. It was a baking hot day; we had air conditioning in our Detroit iron. He didn't. It must have been hell in there. Interesting how it's the incidentals that stick in the memory.