The Game Show Forum > The Big Board

Aussie WWTBAM faces another controversy

<< < (3/3)

Matt Ottinger:

--- Quote ---Why would you turn to Google for a spell-check when you can turn to an authority on the subject like Merriam-Webster (www.m-w.com)? The spellings I cited are from that source.
--- End quote ---
Because it's a fun (though, as I said, unscientific) way to quantify exactly how all the varient spellings show up in the real world.  Well, virtual world, but you know what I mean.  For example, it's interesting that Merriam-Webster doesn't consider 'boogieman' to be valid (BTW, my Random House does), yet it shows up on the internet about eighteen times more frequently than 'bogyman', which they do consider OK.  It's neither right nor wrong, just a way to look at the common usage of the various choices.  

In other words, M-W shows us how things SHOULD be.  Google more accurately shows how things really are.
Ain't language fun?

--- Quote ---Both pronunciations (Boogie and Bogey) are considered correct.
--- End quote ---
Apparently not according to Australian game show producers.  That's the reason we're having this conversation.

CherryPizza:

--- Quote ---
--- Quote ---Both pronunciations (Boogie and Bogey) are considered correct.
--- End quote ---
Apparently not according to Australian game show producers.  That's the reason we're having this conversation.
--- End quote ---

According to the producers of Catch Phrase there are two pronunciations for the word, but the puzzle in question could only be correctly interpreted as \"bogeyman\".

According to the Australian public, though, the only way to say it is \"boogieman\", and it was therefore wrong to have a question whose only possible answer is that other pronunciation. One could therefore equate it to the WWTBAM question/s in which none of the answers was correct

There are more details about it on My homepage

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page