News for Friday, May 22nd, 2015
- WKRG-TV, WPMI-TV, and WALA-TV had different ways of referring to
one of the sons of the mayor of Mobile in their local news broadcasts after 12:00 p.m. today
(his proper name was Sandys Miller Stimpson):
- WKRG-TV's way: His first name was usually spelled S-A-N-D-S and usually pronounced the
way most folks usually pronounced the word "sands".
- WALA-TV's way: His first name was usually spelled S-A-N-D-Y-S and usually pronounced the way most folks usually pronounced the word "sands".
- WPMI-TV's way:
He was usually referenced as having the same first and last names as the
mayor of Mobile: "Sandy Stimpson" (the mayor's proper name was William
Sandys Stimpson).
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