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Casey and Ann begin the New Year by looking into an arson/murder and the related kidnapping of a college professor.
Original Air Date: January 1, 1948
Originating in New York
Starring Staats Cotsworth as Casey
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Another instance in changing pronunciation and common usage.
The announcer proclaimed how good Anchor Hocking is for storing
“soluble coffee”. That product later became known as “Instant Coffee”
or “Freeze-dried Folgers”. It was stirred into a coffee mug with boiling water,
not brewed in a percolator or dripped through grounds in a filter.
I’d think this early powdered coffee would be very sensitive to humidity
and cause clumping on the shelf. The durable Anchor Hocking would keep the moist air out.
Another early usage of a phrase before we had settled on a usage
was Orson Welles in those editorial shows he put out just as WWII was ending.
He referred to the United Nations by the acronym of its original name
the United Nations Organization, which he pronounced “UNO” or “oooh-know”.
We now call it the “you-enn”.
Lastly, we can track Jack Webb’s changing pronunciation of his home city.
Early shows feature Webb and his announcers calling Los Angeles
“Loes Angle-ease” with a long O, a hard G and no hard accented syllable.
Later in the fifties, they drifted to the “Loss AN-jel-iss” we generally use today.