:: The Wendy House ::

dusty dry cold rigid fox deftly holding a long-dead bird in yellowed teeth.

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

In an English accent,  spoken to a US person… 

‘fries’ sounds like ‘rice’

• whenever I order Fries’ in the works canteen,  the server moves to add some ’rice’ to my plate.  Even putting the word ‘french’ in front of ‘fries’ fails to solve this problem.  I’m not sure what to do.  Normally I say ‘No‘ repeat the word ‘fries‘ while pointing to the deep-fryer.

‘Hiya’ sounds like ‘How are you?’

• Which apparently is the phrase that lead to the truncated greeting that I use.  I use ‘Hiya’ as a verbal greeting with friends and at work.  A persistent personal habit picked up in Northern England in the 1980’s. 
• Using it can be dangerous. 
• In England people reply with a chirpy smile and another ‘hiya’.  My US acquaintences generally reply by telling me how they are…  often I’m unrepared for the earnest content and detail.  Maybe I should start saying ‘Yo’?
• The greeting is popular for internet mediated communication,  though not quite as popular as the even further truncated ‘hi’

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