European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 columns the stars and stripes monday october 13.1966 owning skins Mokes him right by William satire the most coveted invitation on a sunday in Washington is to the Lombard room behind the owner s Box at Robert f. Kennedy memorial stadium where politicians Power brokers and Media biggies Munch hot dogs and speculate on the fortunes of Jack Kent goalie s redskins. Cooke is a linguistic conservative that is be Sticks to certain pronunciations no matter How the accents of the rest of the world Are changing. "1 be we won be seeing Michael Deaver Here a Wise Guy said to him at one of the season s Early games spearing and applying late hit to the formerly mighty assistant to the president. I Hope you will retorted Cooke. I invited him because i refuse to treat him As a Parish is thai snapped a few Well coined blow dried Heads around. Everyone else in that room would have pronounced Panay to rhyme with they Call the win Maria a Rye us but Cooke made it sound More like earner. My Media conferee looked to me to confront in owner with his mispronunciation correcting that they figured was my responsibility not heirs and they wanted my Seal in the Box at the next Home game. Cooke rotates the inflation and the fewer to be invited Means the greater the number of invitations left for the sycophants. I notice you said As a pariah is treated " i said. I Admire the Way you use As rather than like a pariah too Many people use Lii As a conjunction 1 offhandedly pronounced pariah a Rye us. Correcting the owner s pronunciation in an exquisitely Subtle Way maintaining my language maven s integrity without jeopardizing my shot at a seat Al superbowl you mean Par be us he said. The munching around us grew deafening. Sam Donaldson edged to Ward the door. Leslie Stahl started for the Chicken wings. I knew whal i had to do. Do you say i a enable Orla ment Abl asked. Lam Citable of course said the Nisly old gentleman. He knew what i was gelling at. And despicable nol Des Pic Able and hos pliable he is consistent prescriptive and certain the Way Jack Kent Cooke pronounces words is reminiscent of slinging Sammy Baugh with Assurance that his Way is the right Way and he has the unwavering support of fans who spoke those words that Way a couple of generations ago. The Oxford English dictionary finished in 1933, pronounces it Par be us explaining afterwards that the word coma from the hindus of India whose caste was so Low Aslo be Oul cafe. And Webster s new world dictionary Grants that a secondary pronunciation chiefly British is Par be us. Bui the Oxford paperback dictionary says to pronounce it a Rye us and All the american dictionaries agree. In India the word it still pronounced the old Way which makes Par be us Correct in India but Here in America we use the new pronunciation except in the Lombard room. Cooke is More consistent than the Abc handbook of pronunciation. That guide to the Silver tongued haste new a Rye us. But the old Lam enable hos pliable and despicable. The bbl guide agrees and for those words most dictionaries prefer the accent on the Fisl syllable. Bui most people who say those big words and that ii very few people accent the second syllable. Note that 1 do not say that these Lover of the second Sylla ble mispronounce those word the pronunciation is changing to be precise the emphasis is shifting to the right and what was incorrect when Ace Parker was jump passing for the dodgers is not incorrect today. It s not Correct but it is uncorrectable. That does not make me a permissive descriptive so a moral relativist or a cowboys fan. Mic Tewis not pronounced nuke a Lar nor judgment judge a men. Nor Liaison Lay i Zon no matter what presidents Eisenhower font and Reagan said. If someone asks you for the name of a Good gone get into a Silva lion in which the importation of elderly norwegians would be restricted. Nevertheless Kegeion insists Congress should be changeling More Money into longevity research in Stead of spending millions of Dollar on studies that predict the social Security system eventually will be bankrupt unless something is done. Brave and visionary men and women Are being forced to wage two distinct Battles one against old age the other against insufficient funding she writes. She May have a Point there. Who knows not All studies Deal with social Security problems however. Five new privately financed studies indicate that workers who have almost no control Over their jobs run a higher risk of having heart attacks than hard driving executives. The workers Al greatest risk Are people who have very Little or no decision making Power says one of the researchers. 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