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Dropping Our Own Names
Aired October 29, 2003 - 05:57 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: TV reporters regularly ask people they interview to spell their names and pronounce their names. And that can make for some amoosing explanations.
Here's our Jeanne, you know who.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When it comes to name dropping our own names, what some of us like to drop is a hint. Whether you're Cindy Gallop.
CINDY GALLOP: G-A-L-L-O-P, as in horse.
MOOS: Or Dr. Jimmie Holland.
DR. JIMMIE HOLLAND: Holland, H-O-L-L-A-N-D, like the country.
MOOS: Or Cathy Sedan.
(on camera): Sedan?
CATHY SEDAN: Like a four door car.
MOOS (voice-over): No matter how simple the names...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: South, like the direction.
MOOS: Directions can't hurt.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's Lapan, just like Japan but with an L.
MOOS: And when you interview folks for a living, you hear lots of names explained.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's Bedgood, B-E-D-G-O-O-D, just like you don't want to say it.
MOOS: Just like you don't want to say good in bed.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's your name?
HELEN BUTLEROFF: My name is Helen Butleroff.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Spell it.
BUTLEROFF: Live a butler jumped off a cliff, B-U-T-L-E-R-O-F-F. MOOS: And if you think that's a mouthful, at the sword swallowers convention we interviewed this guy's girlfriend.
JESSICA MULLIGAN: It is Jessica Mulligan, like the stew.
MOOS: From stew to ice cream and a story on robotic parking. We met Gerhardt Haag.
GERHARDT HAAG: Haag like Haagen-Dazs ice cream. You know ice cream? Oh, yes!
MOOS: And speaking of food, you've probably heard of this restaurant survey, but can you pronounce it. I asked him.
(on camera): Zagat.
TIM ZAGAT: Like the cat in a hat and that's that. Everybody calls me Tim Zagat and when I call up somebody that I don't know, I don't say Tim Zagat because if I did they'd say The Gap, what is The Gap calling me about?
MOOS (voice-over): Now, when you photograph prize chickens, it's only fitting to say your name is...
TAMERA: Tamera like camera.
MOOS: We've been collecting these examples for three years, from the winner of the staring contest, Willie Lemon...
WILLIE LEMON: L-E-M-O-N like the fruit.
MOOS: ... to a contestant in the air guitar competition.
(on camera): Crane?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Crane.
MOOS: C-R-A-N-E, right?
(voice-over): To the man who fought to keep the name Sodom Road, Richard...
RICHARD MORSE: Morse, like the code.
MOOS: Even famous names, like the U.N. secretary general, fall victim to mispronunciation.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kofi Annan.
MOOS: It happens so often the U.N. Press Office has devised a formula for saying Kofi Annan.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kofi as in Sophie, Annan as in cannon.
MOOS: I feel his pain. Anchors routinely butcher my name.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.
MOOS (on camera): Well, actually, it's Moos, Jeanne Moos, like most without the T.
(voice-over): One of my favorites came from the winner of the Ugly Couch Contest, Camille Hempill.
CAMILLE HEMPILL: Hempill, like marijuana.
MOOS: You'd have to be smoking something not to get that hint.
Jeanne like most without the T Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired October 29, 2003 - 05:57 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: TV reporters regularly ask people they interview to spell their names and pronounce their names. And that can make for some amoosing explanations.
Here's our Jeanne, you know who.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When it comes to name dropping our own names, what some of us like to drop is a hint. Whether you're Cindy Gallop.
CINDY GALLOP: G-A-L-L-O-P, as in horse.
MOOS: Or Dr. Jimmie Holland.
DR. JIMMIE HOLLAND: Holland, H-O-L-L-A-N-D, like the country.
MOOS: Or Cathy Sedan.
(on camera): Sedan?
CATHY SEDAN: Like a four door car.
MOOS (voice-over): No matter how simple the names...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: South, like the direction.
MOOS: Directions can't hurt.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's Lapan, just like Japan but with an L.
MOOS: And when you interview folks for a living, you hear lots of names explained.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's Bedgood, B-E-D-G-O-O-D, just like you don't want to say it.
MOOS: Just like you don't want to say good in bed.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's your name?
HELEN BUTLEROFF: My name is Helen Butleroff.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Spell it.
BUTLEROFF: Live a butler jumped off a cliff, B-U-T-L-E-R-O-F-F. MOOS: And if you think that's a mouthful, at the sword swallowers convention we interviewed this guy's girlfriend.
JESSICA MULLIGAN: It is Jessica Mulligan, like the stew.
MOOS: From stew to ice cream and a story on robotic parking. We met Gerhardt Haag.
GERHARDT HAAG: Haag like Haagen-Dazs ice cream. You know ice cream? Oh, yes!
MOOS: And speaking of food, you've probably heard of this restaurant survey, but can you pronounce it. I asked him.
(on camera): Zagat.
TIM ZAGAT: Like the cat in a hat and that's that. Everybody calls me Tim Zagat and when I call up somebody that I don't know, I don't say Tim Zagat because if I did they'd say The Gap, what is The Gap calling me about?
MOOS (voice-over): Now, when you photograph prize chickens, it's only fitting to say your name is...
TAMERA: Tamera like camera.
MOOS: We've been collecting these examples for three years, from the winner of the staring contest, Willie Lemon...
WILLIE LEMON: L-E-M-O-N like the fruit.
MOOS: ... to a contestant in the air guitar competition.
(on camera): Crane?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Crane.
MOOS: C-R-A-N-E, right?
(voice-over): To the man who fought to keep the name Sodom Road, Richard...
RICHARD MORSE: Morse, like the code.
MOOS: Even famous names, like the U.N. secretary general, fall victim to mispronunciation.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kofi Annan.
MOOS: It happens so often the U.N. Press Office has devised a formula for saying Kofi Annan.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Kofi as in Sophie, Annan as in cannon.
MOOS: I feel his pain. Anchors routinely butcher my name.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Here's CNN's Jeanne Moos.
MOOS (on camera): Well, actually, it's Moos, Jeanne Moos, like most without the T.
(voice-over): One of my favorites came from the winner of the Ugly Couch Contest, Camille Hempill.
CAMILLE HEMPILL: Hempill, like marijuana.
MOOS: You'd have to be smoking something not to get that hint.
Jeanne like most without the T Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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