Re: CHAT: English is SO HARD, even the English can't speak it

From: Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>

> I just tried to ask someone whether his flask lasts for two days when he stays
> out fishing overnight. It kept wanting to come out as "Do your flast lask?"
A spooneresquism which I haven't lived down in family lore even though I said it
when I was, like, *six* is "bead ferder" for "bird feeder". This apparently
sent our at-the-time neighbor into fits of hysterical laughter, which
increasingly frustrated me as I kept repeating it: "Why is he laughing at my
bead ferder?! :(", which increased the laughter, usw. So entrenched has it
become through numerous retellings ad nauseum that if I don't watch it, it can
still come out that way.

Another one I have to watch for is the past tense of "drive". If I'm not careful, it
has been known to come out as "droove". Less hilarity-provoking, but recurrent
nonetheless.

Kou

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