Wednesday Whinings -- T. J. Holmes

Okay, I'm continuing with my little series called "Wednesday's Whinings" where I get to gritch about something that bugs me.

T. J. Holmes is the news anchor for CNN and is usually on during the early mornings.

Now, although Mr. Holmes is awfully easy-on-the-eyes, he has an irritating habit of pronouncing "Iraq" and "Iran" as "o-raq" and "o-ran".

And that drives me insane.

I'm sitting there shrieking at the TV: "It's EE-RAQ you idiot!"

Some people give it a lazy pronunciation like "uh-raq" and "uh-ran", but not dear T. J.
He goes all the way:

"Today, in southern oh-raq, coalition forces . . . "

After a while, it bugged me so much that I got on the internets and actually sent CNN an email about it.
Really!
I did.

So, take a look an an early morning broadcast of CNN and note Mr. Holmes' pronunciations.

And if he IS pronouncing it correctly, it's because of ME.