My kid cracks me up. Here I am, checking out forums on the computer with "Spongebob Squarepants" (Chloe's absolute favorite) on the t.v. across the room and what is Chloe doing? She's been behind me for 10 or 15 minutes rearranging the DVD's on the media center. We had DVD's arranged like books on a bookshelf, so the spines are showing. Evidently, the flow of the room is ALL wrong according to Chloe.
When I turn around to see why she's being quiet (always a red flag, if you ask me), she has rearranged about 20 or so DVD's so the cover is front and center. Some DVD's have fallen to the floor, such as "Sixteen Candles", "Blazing Saddles", "Scarface", "Bad Santa" and "Rear Window." What my creative sixteen month old has stacked with the covers on display are such classics as "40 Year Old Virgin", "Apollo 13", "Cool Hand Luke", "The Marx Bros: A Day at the Races", "It's a Wonderful Life". Funnily enough, some movies that she hid behind these film gems are "Stripes", "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" and "Making the Grade". I guess she's not really big on silly 80's movies yet. Oh well.
Oh crap, she just ran off into the living room with the "Borat" DVD!...maybe she does have an appreciation for low brow humor after all! ;O)
Friday, May 9, 2008
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Nails on a chalkboard
So, the other day, I went through the drive thru of Dairy Queen while my daughter was napping in her carseat when I had a "nails on the chalkboard" moment. (Strangely, when someone slides their nails down a chalkboard, it doesn't bother me. Anyhoo..)
What made me shudder was when I heard the lady in front of me ordering a hot fudge sundae, and she pronounced it "sun-duh". Grrrrr.. I'm shuddering now just thinking of it. I don't know why...perhaps I was a strict English teacher in a former life, but whenever people pronounce certain words differently than how I think they should be pronounced, I shudder in disgust. Call me an English language elitist. I can't help it.
So here are some other words that I find that people commonly mispronounce (especially in the lovely Midwestern area that I live in):
-Wash- When I hear people pronounce it "warsh", I wanna strangle them.
-Creek- I don't care if you grew up with one in your backyard; it's not "crick", it's "creek"...just as it is spelled.
-Missouri-Once again, it's pronounced just as it is spelled, and since there is no "a" at the end, do not pronounce it "Missourah", or I will strangle you.
-Illinois- Here's a tricky one. It looks like it should be pronounced "Illi-noise", because there is an "s" on the end, so you would think you would say it that way, right? No. That sounds stupid. The "s" is silent. Don't make me strangle you.
Well, I know there are several other words that are constantly mispronounced, but I can't think of them right now. These are just the top of my list. The funny thing is that I knew my husband pronounces "wash" as "warsh", which is #1 on my list, before I married him. When he first said "warsh" or "Warshington", I thought "oh no." But as the years go by, the sound of the nails on the chalkboard is getting softer and softer. I guess true love does conquer all. Although, he does want us to move to the capital of the USA...you guessed it folks..good ol' WaRshington, D.C.
Sigh.
What made me shudder was when I heard the lady in front of me ordering a hot fudge sundae, and she pronounced it "sun-duh". Grrrrr.. I'm shuddering now just thinking of it. I don't know why...perhaps I was a strict English teacher in a former life, but whenever people pronounce certain words differently than how I think they should be pronounced, I shudder in disgust. Call me an English language elitist. I can't help it.
So here are some other words that I find that people commonly mispronounce (especially in the lovely Midwestern area that I live in):
-Wash- When I hear people pronounce it "warsh", I wanna strangle them.
-Creek- I don't care if you grew up with one in your backyard; it's not "crick", it's "creek"...just as it is spelled.
-Missouri-Once again, it's pronounced just as it is spelled, and since there is no "a" at the end, do not pronounce it "Missourah", or I will strangle you.
-Illinois- Here's a tricky one. It looks like it should be pronounced "Illi-noise", because there is an "s" on the end, so you would think you would say it that way, right? No. That sounds stupid. The "s" is silent. Don't make me strangle you.
Well, I know there are several other words that are constantly mispronounced, but I can't think of them right now. These are just the top of my list. The funny thing is that I knew my husband pronounces "wash" as "warsh", which is #1 on my list, before I married him. When he first said "warsh" or "Warshington", I thought "oh no." But as the years go by, the sound of the nails on the chalkboard is getting softer and softer. I guess true love does conquer all. Although, he does want us to move to the capital of the USA...you guessed it folks..good ol' WaRshington, D.C.
Sigh.
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