Posted by Jim Lindgren: Mispronouncing "Orion." http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_22-2009_03_28.shtml#1237962467
Barack Obama was [1]criticized in the last day for repeatedly mispronouncing "Orion" in Orion Energy Systems. While some of us have known the northern constellations since grade school, I would suspect that President Obama knows how to pronounce about as many English words as I do (and a lot more foreign names than I do). I suspect that Obama pronounced Orion as "OR-ee-un" because that is how the longtime WGN Chicago announcer [2]Orion Samuelson, "the best-known agricultural broadcaster in the country," [3]pronounces his name. References 1. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/03/023149.php 2. http://www.radiohof.org/newstalk/orionsamuelson.html 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Samuelson _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
