Speaking of Public Radio and pet peeves, I was just going to post about this, but it fits in here so well. The meteorologist on Vermont Public Radio has the fingernails-across-a-chalkboard habit of pronouncing "across" with a slight "t" at the end of it, as in "snow and freezing rain spreading acrosst northern Vermont tonight." It tends to be elided when followed by a "t" sound, though ("across the Green Mountains"). He also says "so to say" instead of "so to speak." These are not common liguistic quirks here in Vermont, and I was wondering if one could pinpoint them to a regional dialect. He doesn't have an indentifiable accent (to me anyway), but that "acrosst" just drives me batty.
I also hate the it's/its thing and the rampant use of apostrophe's (but I still feel a little funny using CDs instead of CD's), but who doesnt.
