On NYD 2017 Albury Ch7 TV News reported the birth of the year’s first baby @ Albury Base Hospital:
Mackenah-Mae !!!!
Father: Mickle
(Pron: Michael) !!!!
This astonishing spelling prompted me to record the unusual spelling of names, and as a byproduct, the gaffes and invented words which crop up frequently on our TV screens.
I present the following, collected over just one year:
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS:
Aaren
Abbro
Addysen
Alexia
Aleysa
Aliyah
Alystar
Aneeta
Arren
Ashlea
Ashlee
Bastian
Beti
Brax
Braxin
Brigid
Brooklyn
Caity
Cailin
Camryn
Cary
Cayla
Chrishan
Christa
Clae
Conor
Copeland
Denese
Destenee
Ebbennee
Ebonie
Elysse
Erich
Euean
Evette
Feiona
Gearoid
Genefor
Giaan
Hakavai
Indyanna
Isabel
Jaala
Jaclyn
Jaidyn
Jale
Jamelle
Jami
Jarryd
Jaxon
Jeoffrey
Jesinta
Kade
Kaedi
Kaitlan
Kaley
Karmichael
Kayleigh
Keanant
Kezia
Kimberlee
Koruna
Kori
Kynan
Kyra
Lezlee
Linzi
Loucas
Lua
Lucenne
Lucja
Mackabee
Mackenzy
Maegan
Madisyn
Mathieu
Maylea
Maze
McKiinleigh
Meghan
Miah
Mikayla
Naiche
Natacha
Natarsha
Natarsja
Natarsjah
Nebraksa
Nicolle
Noemi
Nyali
Reema
Renita
Shae
Shahleena
Shararei
Sharnell
Storm
Taghe
Tammara
Tamekah
Tamika
Tanja
Taria
Tarnya
Tarnyah
Tayla
Taylah
Teguin
Torie
Tui
Tye
Tylene
Tziporah
Urzilla
Yuvan
Zayb
NEW STUDIES:
Dialectology
Enculturisation
Foodology
Suicidology
NEW WORDS:
Artisanal (=adj from ‘artisan’
): ABC-TV promoCash-generative
Codine (ABC NEWS24 subtitle) It’s ‘Coedine’.
Commoditise
Concretise (=‘firm up’, eg. a managerial decision)
Crown of Thornes starfishes (ABC NEWS24 subtitle)
Definitional (Maybe they meant 'definitive'?)
Digitalisation
Dilapitated
Disregulated
Duplicatory
Ecko (Ch7 News crawler)
Equalness (Australia Post’s new CEO!!)
Halision (ABC-TV News - Probably meant ‘halcyon’)
Harmonisation
Impulsivity
Intentionality
Investigational Activities (CIA chief during USA Trump/Clinton Presidential election.)
"It's the one missing chink in our armour." (
This could only be an AFL coach!)Kiribaity (ABC NEWS24 newsreader referring to Kiribati, pron: 'Kiribas'.)
Malelovent (MaleVoLent)
Motorvational (ABC NEWS24 crawler)
Mumpreneurs
Natively (ABC-TV Landline)
Optics (=appearance: 'the [O] of the situation...') on ABC-TV: 'The Drum'
Participisation
Plebicite (Ch7 News crawler)
Recognisation
Reconciliate (Aboriginal during NAIDOC week)
Recreate (=verb from 'recreation'): a WA Fed MP!
Responce (Ch7 News crawler re ambulance times)
Robotised
Secondarily (Could only be a Yank!)
Thought-evoking
Transitionality
Unfunctional
Unreplaceable (in a tribute to the late Mark Colvin, ABC journalist and pedant.)
Unstrikeable (ABC NEWS24)
Unsupport (USA President Donald Clown)
Upsurgence
Uptick (ABC-TV News finance report, regularly)
Virtuostic performance (Probably meant 'virtuoso') Australian Ballet Director!

