We made fun of the thing we love.

It annoys me to no end when someone picked on my accents. Accents are fun and unique factors, they make languages colorful – and I’m not even going to go into regional sentence structures, idioms, sayings, allegories, parables, metaphors, analogies and all that at the moment.

I’m an Asian girl who went to boarding school taught by English nuns and spent her teenage life rocking to Cindi Lauper in the United States. Even experienced linguistics cannot place my origin. I’m a unique, with a funny accent, of course. Of course.

The thing is, I’ve been poked fun of my accent too many times, so, basic survival instinct, I put things in my own words – a lot – just to avoid saying the words that I’m not comfortable with.

Well, enough ranting…here is something fun for you to do, boys and girls!

1. How do you pronounce the word aunt?
Like the word ant
Like the word want
Like the word caught
I pronounce all three the same.
... ohdear. this is going to be difficult, isn't it? ahnt. like that.

2. How do you pronounce caramel?
Two syllables ("car-ml")
Three syllables ("car-a-mel") THERE IS THREE SYLLABLES THERE, HEATHENS.
Either way but I mainly use car-ml

3. How do you pronounce coupon?
Like the word coup ("coopon")
Like the word cute ("cyoopon")
I do it both ways depend on who I’m talking to.

4. How do you pronounce crayon?
Like word man (One syllable, "cran")
Like the word rayon (Two syllables, "cray-ahn") only with an 'o'. because I'm English that way.
Like the word crown (pronounced the same way)

5. How do you pronounce creek?
Rhymes with meek
Rhymes with brick

6. How do you pronounce the second syllable in pajamas?
Like the word jam mmmm, jam.
Like the word mom
Like jar, “pa-JA-mus” *nods*
Either way

7. How do you pronounce pecan?
Stress the first syllable, end in an ("PEE-can") (wtf is a pecan, btw?)
Stress the second syllable, end in an ("pee-CAN")
Stress the first syllable, end in ahn ("PEE-Kahn")
Stress the second syllable, end in ahn ("pee-KAHN")
Like "pick Ann"

8. How do you pronounce route?
Rhymes with hoot
Rhymes with out
Both way (but mostly rhymes with hoot)

9. How do you pronounce the first vowel in syrup?
Like "sear-up"
Like "sih-rup" as in sir
With a long I, like “SI-rup”, like that!

10. How do you pronounce insurance?
Stress on the first syllable, like IN-surance
Stress on the second syllable, like inSURance
Either way
No stress. Dude, who gets stress about insurance?

11. How do you pronounce mayonnaise?
Two syllables, like "man-aze"
Three syllables, like "may-uh-naze"
I use both

12. How do you pronounce roof?
Like the word "food"
Like the word "foot"

NAMING THINGS

13. What do you call the long sandwhich made with cold cuts, lettuce, tomatoes, etc.?
Sub
Grinder
Hoagie
Hero
Bomber
Italian
Sandwich
Baguette
Sarney (does anyone over ten say this?)

14. What do you call the insect that flies around in the summer & glows in the dark?
Lightning Bug
Firefly
Peenie Wallie (AHAHAHAH WTF?)
I use both firefly & lightning bug

15a. What nicknames do you use for your grandmother(s)? (Check all that apply).
Grandma
Grandmother
Granny
Nan or Nana
Mom Mom
Mee-Maw
Ooooo, “Gram-ma”, like that.

15b. What nicknames do you use for your grandfather(s)? (Check all that apply).
Grandpa
Grandfather
Grandad
Gramps
Pappy/Poppy
Pop-Pop
Papa
I don't have any, sod off.

16. What general term do you use for rubber soled shoes used in athletic activities?
Sneakers
Tennis Shoes
Gym shoes
Running shoes
Other. This is like a trick question, isn't it?

17. What do you call the little grey bug that rolls into a ball when you touch it?
Roly Poly
Doodle Bug
Potato Bug
Pill Bug
Sow Bug
WHY WOULD I WANT TO TOUCH A BUG?

18. What do you use to collect groceries at the supermarket?
Shopping Cart
Buggy
Grocery Cart
Carriage
Trolley
Other

19. What is your generic term for a sweetened, carbonated beverage?
Soda
Pop
Coke
Tonic
Other A carbonated beverage, or the brand name.

20. What is the distinction between dinner and supper?
Supper is the evening meal, dinner comes earlier (lunch, for example)
Supper is a light evening meal, dinner comes earlier & is the main meal
Dinner takes place in a more formal setting
I don't use the term supper
Other
I’m a greedy sod, so I use them both interchangeably. :D


Oy! That took longer than I thought. And now, Phantom of the Opera, the movie.

I loved it. I was afraid that I wouldn’t. But I did.

Except for the bit in the cemetery, which reminded me of Gotham City, which also made me squirmed in my seat out of boredom – okay, I got it. It’s a very gray and gloomy cemetery with gray and gloomy statues and tombstones. I GOT IT. (and this, coming from a set design hor, like myself, NOT GOOD. - and dude, the two gate statues thingy, so Lord of the Rings’ “statues of the Argonath” wanna be, except they are a tad creepier. Then, I was saved by Christine’s heaving bosom. And when a girl get excited about another girl’s heaving bosom, she must be VERY bored.

AND THEN, THERE WERE SWORDS FIGHT, OMG!!

I don’t remember Christine being so wimpy in the play, but I saw it a couple years ago and I was concentrated more on the oooh and the ahhh of the set, then. But OMG!!! The boy got swords and you’re just standing there, you lame-o!!

I also do not remember being annoyed by the music when I watched it as a play, then again, the oooh and the ahhh of the set and all that. The movie, though, music drags on..and on..and on. There’s 2 tunes. Count them. ONE. TWO. And the rhymes are quite predictable.

But, ABSOLUTELY, I’d sit through the whole thing again just for the 2 minutes screen time with the prancy-dancy boy in mask with fan - 2 fans, in fact – in the Masquerade Balls scene. OMG, mysterious dancy-prancy boy, I LURVE you!!

Oh yeah, Minnie Driver. I worship thee. Always have, always will. XD

Well, have a good weekend, fellow blogger. Next up date, possibly Monday. Same blog time, same blog channel.