If there are 135 words that you pronounce as if you just crawled out of your Ozarks trailer, should you really be anchoring a two-hour newscast in a market this size?
Here's our guide to the strange language spoken by WOWT's diction-challenged morning newsreader bimbo Maladroit Maddox. Asterisks denote contributions by alert readers.
ACK-suh-dint: mishap
aaer: 60 minutes
aaaer: belonging to us
BASE-mint: the below-grade portion of a building
baynk: financial institution
bawdy: corpse
beck: library item (example: "I'm 30-ish and I've never read a beck!")
BEDGE-it: spending plan
be-GEN (hard g): start
BELL-out: government rescue program for failing businesses
*BESS-stawp: where children catch their big yellow ride to school
BET-uns: clothing fastners
BIN-een-tun: town in NW Douglas County
BIN-sun: neighborhood in north-central Omaha
*BRAWK o-BAW-muh:: 44th President of the United States
