275- OK, HOW DO TRUE, DECENT VIRGINIANS PRONOUNCE THE HONORED NAME OF OUR REVERED AND HISTORIC CITY OF NORFOLK?......

Wait until you hear what's being done on some of our public airwave TV stations by some of their TV "personalities"....ready to hear? And, the historically proper pronounciation IS "NOR-FOLK!" and NOT the ignorant, vulgar "nor-f**k", as used by some on-air personalitites in Tidewater, Virginia! And, by their expressed ignorance and doing it full well knowing how offensive it is, using OUR public air-waves to mispronounce OUR historic Virginia name of NOR-FOLK, it's time for the rest of us to object and send them packing back to the state whence they came!!!

1) More and more personalities at two Tidewater (Va.) TV stations repeatedly refer to our NorFOLK as NOR-F**K. When I politely and respectfully asked, by e-mail, for one station and the "on air" personalitities to pronounce Norfolk historically correct, using the original "NOR-FOLK," they declined, stating that that's the way it's been prounced in our Tidewater region for some time, therefore, making it THE correct form. But they, using their own air-waves "power" supposedly granted by the FCC to degrade Nor-FOLK, are in the wrong. The local TV on-air personalities ARE the ones leading, trying to lead the incorrect and vulgar pronounciation in the public. And I , and others, definitely feel that they are doing it intentionally!!! This ultra-liberal ignorance will be addressed in the coming months..."wait and see!"

2) NORFOLK is a very old and proper English word and is historically derived from "NORTH FOLK"....not from "North F**k." That means, by the way, "folk from the North." Suff-FOLK, nearby, is derived from "South Folk" and, of course, not the coarse "South F**k."

3) The TV station's pronunication is false, incorrect and, I believe, done to elicit a degrading and demeaning reaction beneath all of us who are respectable native Virginians and those many who join us in deploring the crude, rude pronunciations of "Nor-F**k and "Suff-F**k." Ignorance begets ignorance, and we Virginians are not about to succumb to such crass "liberal come here" use of a revered historically correct word like our NorFOLK!

4) And the argument that this is a trivial matter won't begin to fly! The FCC grants public airwaves stations the right to use OUR FREE airwaves but with certain responsibilities. This U.S. government prof, for years, has done my homework and will respond soon...to the FCC who does make provisions and written forms for invididuals and groups, on public airwaves stations, to express our conserns!!

5) NORFOLK is simply NOR-FOLK!...."north folk! NOT Nor-f**k!"

6) Let's see....parents and hundreds of thousands of local Tidewater residents...do you want your Academy publicly referred to as NOR-F**K Academy? NOR-F**Kers? What do you think?

7) STAND UP FOR SOMETHING, BUT AT LEAST STAND UP for something and make your opinions known!

8) Hey...isn't it strange how those same Tidewater public airwaves TV stations this week, 5/13, had a news story about a woman, with child, who was upset about finding the very same word, "F**K", in a Happy Meal...and the station broadcast an interview about the use of the PROFANITY? For the record, I politely submitted one of their "3 vents". And they did not use it on air, using that power of ignoring me!

8) Someone says that they don't care if it is pronounced incorrectly, with the blantantly vulgar way?....but try using the word in your religious service next time. Don't go to religious serivces? Have your young children use it around your home. AIN'T that right?