or is it just painful to him to hear the French language spoken less than perfectly? Well, it’s pretty fair to say it bothers him enough that he continually finds it necessary to correct contestants when they use the English pronunciation of a French word, and sometimes it does get a bit ridiculous – like in this video with clips from Jeopardy! Does he really have to add duchesse when it comes to duchess potatoes? How about cou-pay?

Most of the time, at Fikkle Fame, we don’t roll our eyes at Trebek but there are occasions, like the time the answer to the clue was The Song of Roland. The contestant answered The Song of Roland, but Alex had to say The Song of Ro-Lahn. Now that’s just wrong. It is not going to be Ro-Lahn when you are saying The Song. If you want to say Ro-Lahn, then you ought to say La Chanson.