If you travel 2 hours east of San Francisco or Los Angeles you will be in another world! :)

>Be thankful you are not limited to watching the news in Greensboro, NC. The channel 12 newscast is ridiculous, and I do not allow my daughter to watch it. However, the newscasters in Raleigh, NC are fairly well-spoken. It amazes me that only 2 hours away by car the language deteriorates to such an extent. (The local news can be rather funny though!)
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>>>It seems to be a requirement for TV sportscasters to mangle tense. "If he doesn't make that catch, the Astros win" is a typical postgame show comment.
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>>Speaking of sportcasters, one of the Phillies broadcasters is fond of saying that a played "deked" another, that is, decoyed him. I'm not even sure I accept "decoy" as a verb and the abbreviation sets my teeth on edge.
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>>While we on ...casters, a local one that gets me is references to "the University of Penn"; it's either "the University of Pennsylvania" or just "Penn." The annoying usage has no doubt been encouraged by written references to UPenn, but if it's anybody's university, it's the University of Franklin, who created it.
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>>Also, I frequently shout back at weathercasters to remind them that there are two r's in "temperature."
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>>Tamar