[GeronL]

Correct pronunciation is racist!!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

That’s what I was thinking. Also, one of the competitors was from U of Alabama. Media will call “raaaaaayyyyycisssssss”.

[cloudmountain]

He SHOULD get a parrot and teach it to say NOTHING but:

uh - KILL - eez

I am evil!

[xzins]

I briefly heard an audio replay on F&F this morning I think.

I believe it sounded like an accent, foreign perhaps, and that the man pronounced by syllables: aa - kee - lus

Which would be reasonable for an accented person to say.