Video: TV presenter in Memphis tries to pronounce Dublin and fails miserably

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ivEXxopmn6A

We know we don’t have the biggest capital city in the world, but surely you’d expect a TV presenter to have a better stab at saying the word Dublin than this.

Paul Connolly of TV3 made an appearance on Good Morning Memphis recently to talk about his upcoming series ‘Travellers In America: A Secret Society’ and a little about traveller culture to host Valerie Calhoun, who, it quickly becomes clear, did very little research before their conversation. If the dynamic in the studio wasn’t awkward enough – with Connolly present, why couldn’t they just sit facing each other at the same table rather than having to pretend he was in Dublin? – Calhoun then made it worse by pronouncing Dublin wrong not once but twice and had to be corrected by Connolly on both occasions. Connolly himself looked a bit exasperated by the end and you couldn’t blame him either but in fairness to Valerie, it’s not as if she’s paid to do this type of thing… oh, wait. Video via YouTube/TV3Ireland