What are your favorite NPR hosts/correspondents names?

I don’t know how to spell any of them, so I’ll do my best. My favorites (that I can think of) are Ira Glass and Lach Mi Sing.

Edit: Ira Glass is actually PRI, now that I think about it.

Yuki Noguchi, for sure. But I love Steve Inskeep (When I first heard that, I thought he was saying “Steve Inskee”)

I love their names. I think in order to have a job as a correspondent on NPR, you have to have a kickass name.

@Ivan – Lakshmi Singh

Kai Risdahl
Carl Castle
Mara Liason
Click and Clack Tap-it

I know Click and Clack aren’t their real names, but I still like them.

@Les Thanks :)

@Les Yeah, I thought he was saying Inskee too…

My favorite name, alas, was one that only I heard. I thought it was Snick Paprikash, which I thought sounded like a cool person or a cool dinner entree, but I finally realized it was Snitka Prakash, which is not nearly as musical, although she is still a great correspondent.

And then there’s always Silvia Pajoli who states her name with such elan! I also like Corey Flintoff and the aforementioned Steve Inskeep and Lakshmi Singh. I love the way some of the names start or end with vowels so you don’t really know where the first and last names begin and end. I’m not sure if she’s there any more but I also love Maria Hinajosa.

@Marina I’ve heard Snitka Prakash a few times too.

While we’re on NPR names, what’s the deal with “Meechelle” Norris? Why can’t she just be Michelle like every other Michelle? Or is she suffering from kick-ass name envy and trying too hard?

(And let’s not forget Sarah Fishko and Margaret Junkquait from WNYC.)

I saw Ira Glass on the street last year in NYC. He is surprisingly more handsome off-camera. As in head-turningly handsome.

I love these names. Is Sarah Vowell a correspondent or just someone who pops up as programme guest from time to time?

@janbb – Meeechelle Norris sounds more NPR-esque than “Michelle”.

Haha, yes, I love Meeeeeechelle Norris.

@Les Each time she says it, she pisses me off. It sounds so affected.

@janbb I was thinking the same thing about Meeeechelle… I think she’s trying too hard.

Oh, another one just popped in my head – David Folkenflik! Now, who doesn’t love that last name?

Can’t believe we’ve left out Satyrious (sp?) Johnson! What were his parents thinking?

How about Arsalon Ipthikar?

Michelle Norris came from a television background, and her voice has way too much of that “TV news” manner for my taste how to describe it…sultry and self-amused maybe. I often turn her off when she lays it on thick.

I’m not sure if this is just broadcast in the chicago area, but I am a fan of Re:sound with Gwen Macsai.

Ok, this one isn’t necessarily a weird name, but Diane Rehm has got to go. I can’t handle her slow, shaky voice. Does it bother anyone else? She probably has some disease and I’m going to feel like a jackass for saying that, but seriously, take the lady off the radio.

@essieness

She actually does have a disease that makes her sound like that, but I agree, she’s difficult to listen to.

Edit: It’s called Spasmodic dysphonia

Click and Clack, The Tappit Brothers. ;)
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
Dee Dee Bridgewater, because it sounds like a bad porno name.
Jack Speer (see above, re: Dee Dee)
Vertamae Grosvenor

and lurve to @essieness for this Q ;)

@eponymoushipster – Dee Dee Bridgewater is on NPR? I thought she was a jazz musician.

@Les she probably is. she’s the host of Jazzset, which is a jazz music program.

@eponymoushipster – Holy crap, I didn’t know that. Thanks for the new info! I’ll be sure to tune in, now. ;-)

@essieness, welcome back!

Bob Edwards. I know they forced him to “retire” from NPR but fortunately I can listen to The Bob Edwards Show on XM radio.

Can’t believe it took that many posts to get to Ofeibea Quist-Arcton. Best. Name. Ever.

Mandilique Delbarco

For years I heard it as Marty Moscohwayne. But it’s Marty Moss-Coane.

I love hearing all these names and seeing people try to spell them. I hadn’t realized how many of them there are.

Locally:
Maiken Scott
Brenda Jorett
Taunya English

Ira Flay-to
Nina Toten-berg

I dont know how to spell them because I never see them written down

Oh, I know those, @benjaminlevi:

Flatow
Totenberg

@essieness I love Dianne Rehm’s show. Its one of the best on public radio, imo.

How could we have forgotten about Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson?

Oh yeah, and Julie Zickefoose.

I.P. Freely and his co-host, Carey O’Keigh

In Philly, one of the local NPR personalities is Marti Moscowayne. <sp?>

@aprilsimnel Thanks!

@eponymoushipster I like the way Ofeibea Quist-Arcton says where she is reporting from “Ofeibea Quist-Arcton DA-Karrr”. Pretty cool.

There is also the correspondent who reports from Korea. Can’t quite pronounce her name let alone spell

Yes, but why does Ofeibea Quist-Arcton always sound so inordinately urgent, desperate, and stressed—like she’s reporting undercover from the sidelines of some cataclysmic event and in imminent danger? She could cover a casual dinner party and make it sound like the apocalypse.

@Fyretiger very good point! NPR needs to get her out of the Middle East post haste – for her own good. Come to think of it, doesn’t Julie McCarthy sound pretty tense most of the time? I would love to hang out with the two of them at Starbucks and share a cup of joe. Lurve for a great answer, and welcome to the Collective!

Great answers, but there’s one more…Gyles Snyder.

Karlie Huckels- hands down!