First, a few of the many new blogs I've found through the comments on my Nightmare posts:
1. Nini at Dear Diary, to distract her while researching renter's rights
2. Denora, because she already took the initiative
3. Someone Being Me, because it turns out we share a baptismal link
4. el-e-e, to help her out during NaBloPoMo
And a few people I've read for a long time:
5. Magic Cookie, because she's having blogger's block and maybe this will help
6. Citations, because I always enjoy what she writes
7. Transmogriflaw, because she was the first blog I ever read and her archives helped me survive two quarters of crim law
So, enjoy! I found it surprisingly difficult to think of 7 random things about myself- although, I just thought of a #8, which I'll put down as a bonus since I didn't follow the meme properly the first time around.
8. I always pronounce "photographer" "photo-grapher" in my head (and occasionally out loud). It's a complete mental block and no amount of knowing the correct way to say the word fixes the problem. Because I was a fast reader as a kid, I read far beyond my actual grade level. This meant I was introduced to words in books long before I was introduced to them in speech- there are many, many words I said wrong in my head for years before learning the proper pronunciation. Photographer just seems to be the only one I can't mentally correct.
I was an early reader too- and I still get tongue-tied sometimes when I'm trying to pronounce a word I've only seen in print. As a kid though, I always messed up abracadabra and cathedral. The only reason I can properly pronounce abracadabra now is the Steve Miller Band song(thank you Steve for breaking it down into little bits :p)
ReplyDeleteYou're funny. I will do the meme -- I'm actually so far sunk into my work right now I can't think of anything to write on my blog, so a little meme-y help is excellent for today!
ReplyDeleteThanks for picking lil' ol' ME out of all the folks rooting for you! I'm honored.
Your #8 just described my husband. Guess how he pronounced "facade" when I first met him 53 years ago? (Attn. proof readers: I can't get the cedilla on my computer.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tag. I tried to do you justice but it is hard to think of 7 things. I have to remind myself of the correct way to pronounce debris every time I read it. Thats the thing with reading a lot as a child I often misprounced words or misinterpreted things because I thought I knew the meaning of a word. Now as an adult I still catch myself saying things incorrectly. I hope you are doing ok. Let us know when you get some news. And I would like to see more Landon pictures too. He is such a doll!
ReplyDeleteHehe.. yet another way to waste time! Thank you! :)
ReplyDelete"Photographer" is an easy one to do that with because of the way "photo" is pronounced. I do it on occasion, along with a lot of other words.
So with you on the pronunciation thing!! I said screwdriver - SCREWED RIVER for a long time and told my parents my teacher said MUNKINGBIRD instead of mockingbird...my parents COULD NOT convince me otherwise! :)
ReplyDeleteI once asked my grandma, "what's Bo-tanny?" (Botany)
ReplyDeleteAnd just a month ago my boyfriend told me "the legislature was wally opposed..." (wholly). I nearly died laughing in our grocery store parking lot over that one. :)
Thank you for the tag! I am going to try to do it. :)
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