Is stepson from the deep south where "ch" and "sh" can both be pronounced like the sh in Sharon and "ed" can get slurred into "ard". (eg "I'm really tarred" = I'm really tired?)
As for the ROFL, when I was young, my little brother had *terrible* reading skills and his teacher suggested that every time we were in the car, he read road signs.
So, we're taking a roadtrip up the pacific coast and he keeps saying "Fiddely Tittley"
Fidelity Title.
And then there's my husband who had an atrocious elementary education devoid of the concept of phonics. If there's a word that is not in his lexicon of memorized words, he just skips it or butchers it incredibly in trying to guess how it's prounounced.
In the Marvel U there's a character called Black Panther whose real life alter ego is T'Challa, King of Wakanda.
Ralph had been reading Black Panther comics for over 20 years when this took place during a discussion of an ongoing storyline:
Dave: I thought it was pretty funny how T'challa dispatched those rebels.
Ralph: No, Black Panther took them out.
Dave: That's what I said, T'Challa did it.
Ralph: Who's T'Challa?
Dave: Uh, T'Challa, King of Wakanda, AKA The Black Panther.
Ralph: OHHHH, that's how you say that word.
Pause
Dave: Well, did you think it was prounounced "Steve" or something?!
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Date: 2005-08-07 03:32 pm (UTC)Is stepson from the deep south where "ch" and "sh" can both be pronounced like the sh in Sharon and "ed" can get slurred into "ard". (eg "I'm really tarred" = I'm really tired?)
As for the ROFL, when I was young, my little brother had *terrible* reading skills and his teacher suggested that every time we were in the car, he read road signs.
So, we're taking a roadtrip up the pacific coast and he keeps saying "Fiddely Tittley"
Fidelity Title.
And then there's my husband who had an atrocious elementary education devoid of the concept of phonics. If there's a word that is not in his lexicon of memorized words, he just skips it or butchers it incredibly in trying to guess how it's prounounced.
In the Marvel U there's a character called Black Panther whose real life alter ego is T'Challa, King of Wakanda.
Ralph had been reading Black Panther comics for over 20 years when this took place during a discussion of an ongoing storyline:
Dave: I thought it was pretty funny how T'challa dispatched those rebels.
Ralph: No, Black Panther took them out.
Dave: That's what I said, T'Challa did it.
Ralph: Who's T'Challa?
Dave: Uh, T'Challa, King of Wakanda, AKA The Black Panther.
Ralph: OHHHH, that's how you say that word.
Pause
Dave: Well, did you think it was prounounced "Steve" or something?!