After she died, a couple of weeks back, our local NPR station started changing the way announcers would pronounce Maya Angelou's last name. After decades of hearing it pronounced as it's spelled, An-jel-oo (or Ahnjel-oo), they've started pronouncing it "An-jel-oh". Turns out, they are right.
And about that same time, they started changing the way they pronounce the name of local Marine base, Camp Lejeune. I've always heard it pronounced Camp Le-zhoon, but they started pronouncing it Camp Le-zhurn. Some invisible 'r' had snuck its way in there. Turns out, they were right, too.
I never got used to the way the NPR guys would say “Carnegie.” I thought it was “CAR nuh gee.” They say “car NAY gee”. I suppose they’re right about that, too.
yeah. it’s like they’re doing a tiny little bit of fake Scottish accent there.