I can't recall a month like July were there have been so many misspellings or mispronunciations of answers and it was counted as a "wrong" answer although there were also many accepted on other episodes as well as possible "we can accept" answers. Is this just Alec's call? To me it should be "wrong" or "right" plain and simple every time.
shareAlex has said if you mispronounce an answer, then it's wrong. If you misspell an answer in Final Jeopardy but it doesn't change the pronunciation, then it's right.
Example: If the Final Jeopardy answer is, "This is a synonym for bucket" and someone writes down pale instead of pail, then it would be counted as right.
Alex has said if you mispronounce an answer, then it's wrong.I can recall him several times accepting an answer but then pronouncing it correctly though it may have always been foreign language words. share
That's a bad example. I'm pretty sure you would be ruled wrong in that case because while it's pronounced the same the words have completely different meanings.
shareIt's my understanding they have judges who make an official call, and the contestants have a right to contest if they choose.
The contestant can mispronounce an answer, as long as it doesn't change the word. It's hard to provide a good example in writing, but a contestant got an answer wrong once when it was supposed to be Brigham Young and she added a letter, changing it to Bringham Young. If she had provided Brigham Young as the answer, but pronounce Young as 'Jung' it still would've been correct.
I hope that makes sense. I do agree that they have been more strict lately, possibly due to complaints, or maybe different judges.
Most mispronunciations counted wrong involve either adding or omitting a syllable or changing a consonant. If the mispronunciation doesn't have one of those issues, it's usually counted correct.
For instance, I'm sure if someone referred to the English composer Purcell with the accent on the second syllable (per-SELL) when in fact it's on the first (PER-s'l), he or she would not be called wrong.
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Great example using Purcell! I was having trouble finding a way to express pronounciation on a written forum.
shareKinda like when Alex ruled the Indian guy's odd pronunciation of "automobile" acceptable. Nothing changed, nothing added or omitted.
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probably a russian plot.
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Thank you , Thank you ,Thank you - I was wondering if it was just me.
It is one of my biggest pet peeves about the show.
It cheats too many contestants.