The word is a (uh), not a (ay)

But listen for five minutes to TV news or any political speech, and you'd start to wonder. Recently I was listening to a youthful (and quite exuberant) newscaster on TV delivering breaking news on a rather serious subject.  In her effort to emphasize the seriousness and drama of the situation, she regularly pronounced “a” as “ay,” a long A sound. She seemed to think that such an incorrect pronunciation ramped up the emphasis or importance

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