(03-05-2022 12:16 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  I'd say "Cincinatti" is the most frequently misspelled, simply because it is impossible to spell correctly save by sheer blind luck. It's a ludicrous word, if you think about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati

I've been abbreviating it "Cinn".

So I guess I can't argue that too much : )

Miami University does not like to be called Miami of Ohio. Even tho I call them that out of habit & hear them called that all the time.

(03-05-2022 10:57 AM)jhn31 Wrote:  

(03-05-2022 06:54 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  This isn’t a name mispronunciation, but does anyone know why the school in Oxford, MS is nicknamed Ole Miss?

From wiki: The term "Ole Miss" originated as a title domestic slaves used to distinguish the mistress of the plantation from the "young misses"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Mississippi

This must be one well kept secret b/c it's the first time I've heard it.

so it's raciss in origin & must be changed ASAP

(03-05-2022 08:20 PM)Skyhawk Wrote:  

(03-05-2022 12:16 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  I'd say "Cincinatti" is the most frequently misspelled, simply because it is impossible to spell correctly save by sheer blind luck. It's a ludicrous word, if you think about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati

I've been abbreviating it "Cinn".

So I guess I can't argue that too much : )

Cincy is acceptable (never Cinci).

If you have a problem spelling the city take it up with the Ancient Romans. I guess it could be worse, the settlement’s original name was Losantiville, a concocted name from several languages meaning “city opposite the mouth of the Licking River.”

The city's name itself is mispronounced a lot so I have to imagine the school's name is as well. Norfolk State. If you make an 'L' sound at all you are saying it wrong.

The worst abbreviation I’ve seen was a conference. A few years ago, the ESPN ticker abbreviated “Southland” as “Southl’nd.”

(03-05-2022 12:16 PM)Porcine Wrote:  

(03-05-2022 10:34 AM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  Much of it is due to poor grammatical skills of writers and their failure to spell-check. Multiple articles in these sports "rags" are full of errors in grammar, sentence structure, and syntax. This is often coupled with shallow depth of knowledge, and presenting flawed, non-researched opinions as facts.

It is not infrequent for nitwits to mix-up Mississippi State, Mississippi, and Southern Mississippi. I observe careless sports media anchors and commentators making such mistakes at times.

One bad one i saw live was a newscaster pronouncing UALR like Bueller.

A lady I used to work with played soccer there, and she pronounced it like Bueller without the B. Maybe it’s more of a campus or local thing than statewide? Maybe the announcer was an on campus guy.

(03-10-2022 05:04 AM)Todor Wrote:  

(03-05-2022 12:16 PM)Porcine Wrote:  

(03-05-2022 10:34 AM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  Much of it is due to poor grammatical skills of writers and their failure to spell-check. Multiple articles in these sports "rags" are full of errors in grammar, sentence structure, and syntax. This is often coupled with shallow depth of knowledge, and presenting flawed, non-researched opinions as facts.

It is not infrequent for nitwits to mix-up Mississippi State, Mississippi, and Southern Mississippi. I observe careless sports media anchors and commentators making such mistakes at times.

One bad one i saw live was a newscaster pronouncing UALR like Bueller.

A lady I used to work with played soccer there, and she pronounced it like Bueller without the B. Maybe it’s more of a campus or local thing than statewide? Maybe the announcer was an on campus guy.

Maybe so. I haven't heard it since. The only other name I heard was when we got some throwback LRU hats.

So for those of us outside the states who mainly see things only in written form how should the following be pronounced?

I get that SEC is S E C and not Sec

But I guess MAC is Mac as in Maction correct?

Is WAC, W A C or Wac

Also is NCAA pronounced NC double A

Thanks in advance

My understanding of the pronunciations:

MAAC = mack (?)
MAC = mack
MEAC = mee-ack (NOT meek)
NEC = en-ee-see (NOT neck)
SEC = es-ee-see
SWAC = swack
WAC = wack

For NCAA, I've heard it both spelled out and "N C double A". I think the latter is more common.

It's also not the MAC Conference. That's saying the Mid American Conference Conference. No one says SEC Conference for example. It's the MAC or Mid American Conference.

(03-08-2022 01:21 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  Miami University does not like to be called Miami of Ohio. Even tho I call them that out of habit & hear them called that all the time.

(03-05-2022 10:57 AM)jhn31 Wrote:  

(03-05-2022 06:54 AM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  This isn’t a name mispronunciation, but does anyone know why the school in Oxford, MS is nicknamed Ole Miss?

From wiki: The term "Ole Miss" originated as a title domestic slaves used to distinguish the mistress of the plantation from the "young misses"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Mississippi

This must be one well kept secret b/c it's the first time I've heard it.

so it's raciss in origin & must be changed ASAP

(03-10-2022 01:49 PM)Bronco14 Wrote:  It's also not the MAC Conference. That's saying the Mid American Conference Conference. No one says SEC Conference for example. It's the MAC or Mid American Conference.

I think we've all said things like HIV virus, ATM machine, and PIN number, even though they are redundant as well. (Although I don't think I've ever heard "MAC Conference.")