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BryanGSimmons

On 3/27/2021 8:19 PM, wrote:
> 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??
>
Like 4 and 5. Kids often mispronounce, but these amused me, and she
was otherwise rather articulate.

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