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Then up popped a descendant of Edmund Halley, the man who discovered the comet; he said the family pronounces its name to rhyme with holly, brolly (as in umbrella), Good Golly, Miss Molly . I consulted a dictionary (about 40 years too late), and it sided with the TV announcers.
Thus, to BBC announcers, President Clinton's residence is the White House , while, to Americans, it is the White House; and I once heard a BBC announcer say Prometheus Bound when an American would have said Prometheus Bound .
Recently a polished, precise form of General American has come to be called Network Standard: it is the speech of many of the prominent announcers and commentators on national television.
Standard English meant the King's English, and in this outpost of Empire, announcers (though unseen) wore dinner suits to read the news and abided by the rulings of the English phonetician Daniel Jones, whose tremendously influential English Pronouncing Dictionary was first published in 1917.
It is possible that radio and TV announcers are to blame, although the Blue Band example shows that TV is not accepted as an authority on pronunciation, when the purchasers of the product kept on calling it marjoreen in spite of the manufacturer's instructions to the contrary.