Nov 12 2008
rustic pane
3 of your thoughts on rustic pane
Oct 08 2008
IT support: hello, this is [name] in Salt Lake city (US Accent)
Wendy: Oh! I hope its sunny in Salt Lake city
IT Support: it’s 4am in the morning
Wendy: Ah, gosh, well, not sunny then, I’ve got this problem…
[problem fixing conversation and Wendy starts falling asleep then wakes up when]
IT Support: Wonkey, I’m even talking British now, wonkey
4 of your thoughts on wonkey sounds like wrong key
Sep 27 2008
Autumn sounds like awesome when pronounced with an US accent. Recently one US friend commented upon returning to the UK:
It’s good to be back. It’s awesome
4 of your thoughts on autumn sounds like awesome
Sep 25 2008
The Wendy House kitchen is currently camping under canvas in the September rain, ruthless.
Much to my surprise the self-mutilating builders turned-up. I wasn’t expecting them because there have been more false starts than a particularly rusty old Fiat Panda on a frosty morning.
5 of your thoughts on Roofless sounds like ruthless
Dec 15 2005
Confusion sounds like Confucian
This can produce a phonologically based spelling challenge. No prizes for guessing who’s recently made that Malapropism.
W Most-Often-Miss-Pelt
write the first thought on Phonological Similarity V: Confusion
Dec 03 2005
This Diner conversation dumbfounded me:
Wendy: “I thought I’d ordered a SPANISH omelette”
Waitress: “I thought you ordered a SWISS CHEESE AND BACON omelette“
‘Spanish’ sounds like ‘Swiss cheese and bacon’?
I couldn’t hear the similarty. Later I engaged the waitress in small-talk. She found my speech very difficult to hear even when I used my best Queen’s English and diction. No mumbling. It reminded me of when I first arrived in the US. Just listening to people talk had been suprisingly, physically, tiring. I gave her a big tip for trying so hard to overcome the difficulties of my poor spoken ‘American’.
W Miss-Understood
write the first thought on Phonological Similarity IV: Spanish
Nov 17 2005
I typed
Mail instead of Main
within an email
to a male
I chuckled to myself. This possibly isn’t amusing for you unless you are actually on Planet-Wendy* with me. No map available to Planet-Wendy.
”cars ‘eee ain’ begit’n maw carn-tex’
Regional accent outbreak. It means ‘context UNPUBLISHABLE’.
*photograph of Planet-Wendy painting** attached.
** the painting*** actually IS hung on the wall in my garage.
***I’m open to painting purchase offers, make me a bid… ….I promise not to cry…
Wendy still-nesting-footnotes
write the first thought on Phonological similarity meets typed Malaproprism
Aug 17 2005
In an English accent, spoken to a US person…
‘fries’ sounds like ‘rice’
‘Hiya’ sounds like ‘How are you?’
Wendy truncate-and-concatenate-are-wonderful-words
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