From a Riverside Newsflash email.
Attention Riverside Residents:
If you were not able to attend the Long Term Finance Committee meeting on July 17, 2007, you watch it in its entirety on Network 6.
The air dates are:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 8 pm
Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday at 2 pm
Broadcasts of all meetings are also available at the Riverside Public Library.
I guess I have to do it: Panel members - the word "comptroler" is pronounced "controller." One who "controls." The m and p are sounded as an "n". I thought guys in the banking business would know this.
Wrong, Mr. Spatny. They are two seperate but similar words in meaning:
From Merriam Webster:
Main Entry: comp·trol·ler
Pronunciation: k&n-'trO-l&r, 'käm(p)-", käm(p)-'
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, alteration of countreroller controller
1 : a royal-household official who examines and supervises expenditures
2 : a public official who audits government accounts and sometimes certifies expenditures
Main Entry: con·trol·ler
Pronunciation: k&n-'trO-l&r, 'kän-"
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-French contreroulur, from contreroule
1 a : COMPTROLLER 1 b : COMPTROLLER 2 c : the chief accounting officer of a business enterprise or an institution (as a college)
2 a : one that controls or has power or authority to control b : CONTROL 3b
"Seperate" is spelled separate.
Comptroller is pronounced controller. The coMPtroller pronunciation is on a par with "nucular."
Bravo, Catherine. I hope the Comptroller shoots you a raise. FYI - my wife's old standby, her 1958 Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language says "comptroller" is pronounced kan-tro-ler (I can't do the marks- trust me.) Always was, always will be. No "M" or "P" sound in it. I think we learned that at RBHS from Ms. Schellhase, whose name is pronounced with a silent "c". Put that in your Funk & Wagnalls as they used to say on Laugh-In, which by the way is pronounced "laff-in."
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