>Keri Williams writes: >>If I am not mistaken someone said a broadcast announcer prounounced Merrimack >>as Merry Mack and this WAS wrong? If this is what was said what is the correct >>way to prounounce it? > >Phonetically (best as I can): MEH-ri-mak. The "i" is a short i, not a >"y" sound. And the "e" is also short, as is the "a". Mare-uh-mack? I've heard it pronounced by Bay Staters as if it's two syllables instead of three. kinda like Mare-mack or Mare-mick. > >The reason this was so embarrassing was that it was the tv play-by-play >announcer for UMass-Lowell, Bob Gamere, who did this. Yeah, well, Bob Gamere has been known to chug a few, so maybe his brain cells and his liver cells are duking it out and mispronunciation is the result. Or maybe he's just developed a *wicked* Midwestern accent. (all this coming from someone who used to say PEA-body, Massachusetts) But now a hockey question: Can anyone remember any/all of the sibling combos who played at BU during the '88-90 campaigns? It's bothered me and another BU alum since the last Beanpot. We're trying to figure out which one of a certain pair left the team prematurely and we're stumped on the family. Help. ________________________________ Helga Dimitrov CWRU Magazine, Office of Public Affairs Case Western Reserve University 235 Yost Hall, 216/368-6949 voice, -4835 fax