Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Read my lips

Does it bug you when people pronounce the name of our fair city as "New-berry-port?"

I mean, I know the word "bury" is usually pronounced "berry," but c'mon!

Even in some video promotion of the city that used to be on the city's website the voice-over person pronounced it "New-berry-port."

I can't find it on this newest incarnation of the site ... which I think s-u-c-k-s! I can't find anything on there!

Speaking of which, MLive, which runs the content from the Flint Journal, recently made some changes as well. Those also SUCK!

Hold on .... must pet cat. It relieves stress, you know.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

What happened to video 1 about Moak

Gillian Swart said...

What's that you say, anonymous? I don't know the answer to that question! hmmmm

Anonymous said...

Sorry, wrong spot to leave message.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtVdvCm4cmA



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_DXUedlZU&feature=related



these videos are not on your video bar. Interesting comments on Moak

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtVdvCm4cmA&feature=channel_page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB_DXUedlZU&feature=channel

s/b on the video bar

ECC said...

A few years ago my then 4ish nephew visiting from Nevada gave us a new name: Blueberryport....and he wasn't trying to be funny, which made it all the funnier.

Ed

Gillian Swart said...

ha ha Ed. I like that!

It reminds me of when my niece was about that age and asked my sister where Jesus was.

My sister replied something along the lines of "Some people believe that Jesus is everywhere you like to be."

My niece said, "Jesus is at McDoonalds?!" (That's how she pronounced it.)

I always thought too bad about the religious context because it would have made a great ad for McDonald's ...