I'm thinking of words - semantics and pronunciations - at the moment, solely because I'm watching the Mets, and Keith Hernandez just said fustrated (sic.) twice in the last inning. Does Keith: - think the word is actually fustrated?
- not get corrected because it's touchy to correct a person's language foibles, let alone Keith Hernandez's?
- use some sort of broadcaster's trick in this instance, to cleanly deliver a word which if attempted in the correct manner, would give him trouble?
Myself, I find it hilarious when I've been pronouncing something incorrectly and someone points it out to me. The older I am and the more common the word, the better.
I learned that Massachusetts wasn't pronounced Massachusess, while I was in college.
Becky laughed when I made some reference to Faneuil Hall, as Fuh-neel Hall.
The claws on a bird of prey: tal(as in gal)-lahns. Tal-lahns.
One of my favorite jokes from The Simpsons:
Bart's teacher's name is Krabappel? I've been calling her Crandall! Why didn't anybody tell me?
Karin calls AirTran "AirTron"
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