Last night I was lucky enough to sit near a popular public radio host at an awards banquet. (I wasn't supposed to sit at the head table, but I couldn't find a seat and someone there offered me one so I took it without realizing. By the time I figured it out, it was too late.) My book was up for an award, but I wasn't a winner, so I explained this to the radio guy, and then I felt that I had to clarify "Not that I'm a loser," just to make sure he didn't call security or something about me sitting at the head table.
Anyway, the radio guy (let's call him Steve) asked about my book, which led us to talk about sticklers, and it turns out that in radio, there are plenty of these. Steve says that people phone and email the station all the time to complain that someone speaking on the radio used the wrong verb or mispronounced something. So now I have a whole new appreciation for all those gracious and articulate and brave radio announcers who don't have a chance to read over and copyedit their words as they emerge at 150 miles a minute.
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