On my local NPR station...

[fraudirector]

Heard this morning during my short drive to work...

The announcer was reading local news stories, and I know it was one of the station workers here at WBAA, the following words were mispronounced.

stipend - read as stip-end with a short I
    the story was in relation to a summer program at Purdue where the faculty are receiving a stipend
paredI

Comments

[psychowoof]

Could have been a bad Monday morning after a holiday weekend. I've heard one the Morning Edition announcers stumble over the same segment of copy a couple times in the same morning - he finally changed to a synonym that he wouldn't stumble on.

I once had a whole week (summer term) of lecture where I had brain block for the word anecdotal (I could think of the definition, but couldn't come up with the word).

[longstrider]

If it was local news I'd bet money I know which announcer it was. That is assuming they have yet to fire the idiot. There was one person who consistently got things wrong, mispronounced names or was clearly sounding them out, back when we were in town. In general had a bad radio voice. I was surprised the person got hired and even more surprised when they didn't go away quickly.

[fraudirector]

I expect you're correct. His reading is very flat, along with the mispronunciations. His name is also very non-anglo.

[longstrider]

I've completely forgotten his name, but that sounds like a good description of the voice I'm remembering.