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HelpUS Weather Bureau and pronunciation of Beryl
Tropical Storm Beryl is telling people that the "correct" pronounciation of the name is Berle, as in Milton Berle:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT2+shtml/
I know that there were women (and some men) born in the USA during the late 19th and early 20th centuries who pronounced the name as Berle. But I think that the great majority of English speaking people today would pronounce the name as "BEAR-ull", like the gemstone. I think the Weather Bureau is going to be confusing a lot of people and by using the "Berle" pronunciation.
What do you all think about this? Should the name of the storm be pronounced "Berl", "beh-rill", or something else?
P.S. They change their advisories so frequently that the above link will no longer get you to the information about the pronunciation, but in the previous advisory they did say it was to be pronounced like Milton Berle.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2006/dis/al022006.discus.005.shtml?
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT2+shtml/
I know that there were women (and some men) born in the USA during the late 19th and early 20th centuries who pronounced the name as Berle. But I think that the great majority of English speaking people today would pronounce the name as "BEAR-ull", like the gemstone. I think the Weather Bureau is going to be confusing a lot of people and by using the "Berle" pronunciation.
What do you all think about this? Should the name of the storm be pronounced "Berl", "beh-rill", or something else?
P.S. They change their advisories so frequently that the above link will no longer get you to the information about the pronunciation, but in the previous advisory they did say it was to be pronounced like Milton Berle.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2006/dis/al022006.discus.005.shtml?
This message was edited 7/19/2006, 2:02 PM
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