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Dear Randi: It's News Corp. (as in corporation) not Corps (as in Marine Corps).

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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 04:47 PM
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Dear Randi: It's News Corp. (as in corporation) not Corps (as in Marine Corps).
So it's pronounced "korp" nor "core". Corp. is an abbreviation for corporation. Corps is a word that means military body. News Corp. is hardly a military body even though it's run like a dictatorship.

She always mispronounces it and for some reason it drives me nuts.

That is all.

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chat_noir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 04:53 PM
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1. News Corpse: The Internet's Chronicle of Media Decay
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 04:55 PM
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2. Best description I have seen yet!
Kudos! :applause:
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smokey nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 04:57 PM
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3. Randi also has a problem with the word subsidize.
Edited on Tue Aug-17-10 04:58 PM by smokey nj
She always pronounces it substidize and that drives me up a wall.
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JSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 05:18 PM
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5. You beat me to this one
The first time I heard her talking about "substidies," I thought she was joking. Nope. She says a lot of stuff weird(ly).
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Lightning Count Donating Member (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 05:11 PM
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4. Even President Obama says Marine "Corpse"
Edited on Tue Aug-17-10 05:11 PM by Lightning Count
It's no big deal. You're being nit picky. Everyone has these verbal peculiarities.
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Liberal In Texas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-17-10 05:42 PM
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6. Never heard the Obama say that. As far as Randi goes, her job is
as a professional radio commentator where she frequently talks about News Corp. and it would behoove her to correctly know how to pronounce the things she frequently talks about. And it also probably bothers me more than normal with her because she always comes off as such a f'ing know-it-all about everything.

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