Ken Jennings slams ‘Jeopardy!’ fan who questioned clue: ‘Purchase a dictionary!’

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“Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings got into a Twitter tiff with a viewer who claimed a seemingly appropriate reply from Friday’s episode was incorrect.

A fan of the trivia present tweeted to the champ, claiming that the reply for the $200 query beneath the “Potent Potable Rhyme Time” class didn’t truly rhyme.

The clue supplied learn: “Rice wine for the man who rides a racehorse.”

One of many contestants, Kari Elsila, rang in instantly with, “What’s ‘sake’ and ‘jockey’?”

The reply was referring to the Japanese alcoholic beverage, which is pronounced to rhyme with “jockey,” according to Merriam-Webster, although the present reportedly uses the Oxford English Dictionary for reference.

That prompted the viewer’s try at correction.

“Expensive @Jeopardy writers ‘Sake’ and ‘Jockey’ usually are not rhyming phrases,” wrote the fan earlier than tagging Jennings, 48, in a separate tweet.

Jennings then clapped again on the viewer.

“I’m as soon as once more asking People to purchase a dictionary,” slammed Jennings in his reply, which included images of each phrases phonetically spelled out.

Sadly, that was not the top of it.

“Love when English adjustments overseas phrases, I suppose,” responded the Twitter consumer.

Jennings refused to again down as nicely.

“Yeah, I’m at all times mad when individuals say the ‘s’ in Paris. Shameful,” jeered Jennings.

“Marvel what English would sound like if all our borrowed phrases have been pronounced accurately, truly,” chided the Twitter fan.

In the meantime, the same battle raged on the game show’s YouTube page.

“All people who doesn’t have an American accent can be instantly irritated by the primary clue so transparently not rhyming in any accent with out the caught-cot merger,” mentioned one fan.

“Gah! ‘Sake’ does NOT rhyme with ‘jockey,’” one exasperated commenter mentioned. “‘Sake’ is pronounced simply because it’s spelled: sa-ke. Sah-keh, phonetically. The ‘e’ in Japanese is just like the ‘e’ within the English phrase ‘let.’ If it rhymed with ‘jockey’ it could be ‘saki.’”

In actual fact, quite a few on-line sources do indeed suggest that it is pronounced, “sah-keh.”

The Submit has reached out to Jennings for remark.

This isn’t the primary time the sport present host has been scolded on-line.

Final month, Jennings was trolled when viewers claimed he “robbed” a contestant of his factors after the competitor mispronounced a solution.

“After the Final Supper, Jesus traveled to this backyard to wish & was arrested there,” learn the $1,600 clue.

Contestant Kevin Manning rang in with the right reply of the Backyard of Gethsemane, which is pronounced, “Geth-SEH-muh-nee.”

Nevertheless, Manning pronounced the laborious “g” sound — like “gate,” which is appropriate — at first and a “d” sound — reasonably than an “n” — on the final syllable.

Jennings pronounced the reply incorrectly and moved on to a different contestant, who mentioned the situation with an “n” sound on the finish but additionally supplied a tender “g” — like “gel,” which is wrong.

“Yeah, we simply wanted the ‘n’ in Gethsemane — that’s appropriate,” mentioned Jennings, who additionally pronounced the identify with a tender “g.”

On-line viewers have been quick to denounce the host.

“Uhhhh @Jeopardy —-Who selected the right pronunciation of ‘Gethsemane’?? I want to listen to that once more,” tweeted one consumer.