Our kids harass Barb and me whenever we mispronounce certain words. "Wash"
and "Washington" are two of the biggies (we grew up pronouncing "wash" as "worsh")
but "creek" (it came out as "crick") gets a fair amount of attention also. I
actually appreciate being corrected and work at incorporating the corrections.
Barb does not appreciate it and at times threatens the kids (and occasionally me for
agreeing that, technically, they are correct) with various types of retaliation and
furthermore declares she will pronounce words just as she always has--which of course
just means she told the kids they have a button to push almost anytime they want to
use it.
It turns out it isn’t just in our household pronunciation is sometimes an issue.
Heather Armstrong nearly had me falling out of my chair in laughter with her
pronunciation (MP3) of "crayon" with which her husb...
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Quote of the day--Xenia Joy Huffman-ScottFrom: blog.joehuffman.org
Post Date: 2006-05-07 08:54:39
In the 1840s Americans still thought Manifest Destiny was really cool and got
the president to fight a war to get more land from Mexico including Texas and California.
Texas said it was already free, but Mexico didn’t think so until after America kicked
their butt.
Xenia Joy Huffman-Scott
4:00 AM, May 1, 2006
On the day the history
project was due.
[There is other great stuff in her timeline of American history too, check it out.--Joe]
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more Herding cattleFrom: blog.joehuffman.org
Post Date: 2006-05-10 00:49:47
I haven’t update the general public on the battle with Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory in a long time. I needed to keep things quiet
for a while. I can give out a few hints now.
I grew up on a farm and we had a few head of cattle at various times. And sometimes
I helped my nearby uncles with there many head of cattle. When you
are herding them often they don’t want to go where you want them to go.
You could...
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