On Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 7:28:44 PM UTC-5, wrote:
>
> "The pun is the lowest form of humor"
> --My oldest brother, Jerry
> Right after I sent this, I remembered that my niece, Jerry's daughter,
> used to call Red Lobster, Red *Lompster*. She mispronounced other
> things too, in ways that I found funny. She called cicadas, which many
> here refer to by the misnomer, "locusts," "fokiss," clearly a short "i"
> sound rather than a schwa, and she called giraffes, "drath." It wasn't
> that she was unable to pronounce any consonant or vowel sounds. As Art
> Linkletter pointed out, "Kids say the darndest things."
>
> --Bryan
>
But how old was she when she was doing all this mispronounciating??