I'm so excited that the month of my birth has arrived!
For 28 days, I will cringe while people of all ages,
financial strata, college degrees, colors and creeds
will mispronounce the month in which I was born.
While I'm at it, Happy Valentime's Day!
Feb-You-Airy.
ReplyDeleteFeb-u-airy
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday....month!
Kids say the darnedest things. My daughter-in-law is fond of using "Ridiculous!" as an expletive (especially in front of the children.) Lately she has taken to saying "Ri - DON - culous!" for some reason. My 2-year-old grandson Aidan heard her say this and immediately repeated it back as, "Ree Donkey Bits!" Cracked us all up.
ReplyDeleteWhat was the question again? Did I win a hat?
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ReplyDeleteAnd not just any birthday...
ReplyDeleteHello Ching Kwon Tuh!
You need to find some kind of book on proper English pronunciation, that you might loan discreetly to any offenders.
ReplyDeleteYou could find such a book at any libary.
It's so hard to spell English words. So many of the spelling rules seem quite arbitary.
ReplyDeleteO Docker, you might even find a book that you could lend to offenders.
ReplyDeleteWe English only account for about 40 million of the 1.3 Billion English speakers in the world no good asking us.
ReplyDelete'ppy birf -day for Feb-rew-harry!
Gor blimey sounds like you're 'aving a barry McGuigan an all.
And in some cases the spelling rules are contary to logic.
ReplyDeleteTake "medieval", for example.
Whoever spelled that one must have had a few two many pints at the local bewary (in the month of Janruary, probably).
Thanks for the correction, Carol Anne.
ReplyDeleteYou aloan could have spotted that.
Loan is a verb.
ReplyDeleteIt's pronounced nigatsu.
ReplyDeleteOtanjoubi omedetou gozaimasu. Congratulations on another circumnavigation of the Sun.