I'd like a T for Christmas.

Every December I mail this doggerel to my local TV stations. Of course it does no good. I never get a reply and the news announcers, ever lazy and uncaring about pronunciation, go right on dropping their Ts in every possible place they can.

There is no Sanna Claus.

In this festive season,

You’d be wise to pause

And tell your news staff people

That there is no Sanna Claus.

Reporters will be shattered

Anchors will be dazed,

And almost everyone in news

Will surely be amazed.

If you tell them bluntly

They’re sure to drop their jaws.

So why not whisper in their ears

“There is no Sanna Claus”?

There is no Sanna Claus, you know.

There simply is no Sanna.

Nor Sanna Cruz nor Sanna Fe

Nor a wind called Sanna Ana.

Theres Is no Sanna Barbara

What’s more, there never was.

There is no Sanna Rosa

And there is no Sanna Claus.

                                  We put Christ in Christmas,

So I’m asking you why can’t a

Group of news announcers

Put the T back in Santa.