I am so sorry for your loss askye. I am giving my kitty some extra cuddles.

My mother cannot say Vietnam or salsa. She somehow puts a million extra vowels in them (and we are from Western NY). So it is vee-a-AT-nam and saaw- all- SUH. Drives me nuts. And I do somehow draw the line between accents and just saying the wrong word, like Chi-pol-te.

Of course, I can't pronounce many words that I see mostly in writing. I just found out today that I was saying proselytize wrong.

My stepmother used to say em-BOYD-ree for embroidery. I could never figure out how she got that.

When I was younger I used to get after my mother because she could never remember the names of famous people, books, or movies, and would either make up names or use a name that is close but not quite. For example, she calls the movie White Nights, "Knights in White Satin". But now I do the exact same thing. When we were doing the play "Accidental Death of an Anarchist", I kept calling it "Accidental Tourist". Now we are doing a play called "The Hairy Dutchman" and I keep saying "The Flying Dutchman" or "The Hairy Ape".

I just found out today that I was saying proselytize wrong.

Now I'm all paranoid. pros-SELL-li-tize? pros-sell-li-TIZE? I can't even figure out how I say it now.

I was pronouncing it with a prose instead of a pros.

I say PROSS-luh-tize. But the dictionary tells me you can also say PROSS-suh-luh-tize. Only not with my phonetics-on-the-fly.

I just found out today that I was saying proselytize wrong.

I won't say how old I was when I realized that "draught" was pronounced "draft."

Or that "segway" was that weird word "segue" I kept seeing.

(No, really. Pretty fucking old. High school, I think. "Epitome" might fall in that Age of Enlightenment as well.)

I used to think Dos Equis and Doseckis were two different types of beer.

Our wii is here. D is playing Metroid. I just squeed, "Oh you're a little ball!" to which he replied, "Oballa!"

Ok, I JUST realized that draught is pronounced draft....