Word of the Day Rant: Lackadaisical
The word lackadaisical perplexes me. It's so straightforward yet nearly almost all sports announcers I hear get it wrong. When you read it aloud, what do you hear? I hear: Lack-a-days-ick-al. Watch an NBA basketball game sometime. Anytime.
I predict that any NBA game you watch will produce the same result. You won't hear what I wrote above. Instead, you'll hear: Lax-a-days-ick-al.
And when you hear it, like me, you'll cringe. You'll want to reach into the Television or into the Radio, or into the Computer screen, or into your Device of choice and throttle the speaker into linguistic submission. You'll want to scream, "There's no X in that word!" And our tongue tied color man will look at you, probably slightly confused, and utter a simple, 'Huh?' And you'll calmly explain that if he wants to keep saying Lackadaisical he needs to come to terms with the true pronunciation that everyone else learned in 7th grade vocabulary class. And if you do that, the world will be a better place.
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