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‘Pavarotti’ is pronounced with a short ‘o’

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Scott Cantrell, classical music critic at The Dallas Morning News, bitched about pronunciation issue among announcers at WRR-101 a couple of years ago, in an in-depth profile. Unfortunately, Karen Moyer wasn’t yet at the station to get her hand slapped. For some reason, she seems to believe that “Pavarotti” is pronounced with a long “o.” And, she makes things even worse by mispronouncing his name with an attempt at an Italian accent. What makes it worse is that she not only knows classical music, she’s actually sung opera.“There is no god, and I am his prophet.” – Steve Snyder

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