Did Alex Witt just say 'valets'...and pronounce it 'val-itts'?

[MineralMan]

13. Reading off a teleprompter, it happens a lot.

someone isn't expecting the word, had no time to think about it, and blurts out whatever pronunciation pops out.

On the other hand, my wife and I have a running contest to see which of the 20-something reporters on our local morning news badly mispronounces a word that morning. It never fails. Of course, Minnesota has some pretty weird place names with Native American language roots, so there's a mispronunciation available almost daily. Try to figure out how to pronounce Lake Winnibigoshish, for example. Most Minnesotans just call it Lake Winnie. In fact, I'm not sure anyone really knows the correct pronunciation.

Another one that throws the kids on the news is Lac Qui Parle, not all that far from Minneapolis. Since we've given up teaching kids foreign languages in our attempt to pass standardized exams, that name might as well be in Greek.