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When in Malaysia I went to the doctor as I had headaches...
The Malay for this is sakit kapala but I said sakit kalapa which means sick coconut... Causing much amusement. There once was a man named Bruce Who liked to sit on a spruce He ate lots of chowder And yelled at me louder: "I'm talking to YOU, Mrs. Hughes!" --> The Literary Genius: Mowgli |
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My grandmother, at 88, still insisted on doing her own shopping often with hilarious results which we attributed to the adverts on the commercial channel of the 60's.
I remember she came back one day with six tins of a well known cat food in her shopping and spent nearly half an hour looking for her favourite chocolate biscuits. She'd asked the shop keeper for Kit-e-Kat instead of Kit Kats. Some of her other gems were her continual reference to to Typhoid tea (Typhoo) and Polio mints (Polo's). ![]() ![]() Don't drink and drive from The Lancre Tavern |
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Ah yes, organism and orgasm - a combination messed up many times in our Home Economics classes (sometimes deliberately)
My family have a habit of mispronouncing words, not mixing them up with others. For example, Tiara and Tarara. Attic and Ackit (that was me I'm afraid). For years, my uncle Flor was called uncle Flower by my sister. My aunt constantly calls the chocolate Galaxy bars Gala-x-y bars. We haven't had the heart to correct her. Plus it's just too funny. Thankfully, the only one that always gets on my nerves was never ever mixed up in our family; hospital and hostable. A mixup that is all too common around my side of the country. But the one thing that yet another aunt kept mixing up was Pedestal and pedestrian. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. ><((((º>.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ¯`·.¸ ><((((º>
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In an english class the teacher was writing on the board and I was reading outloud along with him and I accidently pronounced superfluous super-flew-us. The class found this quite hilarious...
There once was a man named Bruce Who liked to sit on a spruce He ate lots of chowder And yelled at me louder: "I'm talking to YOU, Mrs. Hughes!" --> The Literary Genius: Mowgli |
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I bet you've upset thousands of "Trekkers" out there now. They hate being called Trekkies!
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Some of Ba's teachers had a little trouble with the pronunciation of certain words. For example, once a teacher was talking about the "Honor" of the store. Ba and his classmates tried to parse this for several minutes, before they finally realized she meant Owner.
Then there was the wheel in the ocean... |
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