[Magdalen] Slaw.

[Juli Tarsney]

My son, when he was 3 or 4, thought that the full name of loons (the
birds) was "lunatic" - which he adorably pronounced "woonatic" ... we
could not bear to correct him.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:26 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>>>My father's hangups were "column" which he pronounced "colium,"
> and "alfalfa" which he pronounced "alfafalfa."<<<
>
> He must've had a helluva time with Our Gang in real time.
>
> I'll never forget two times with my Pop, both times in argument with him.  (I was young.)  Once, when I used the word "imply", he actually asked me what it meant.  And the other time he accused me of causing "confusement".  He had a mid-1930s 6th grade education, bless his heart; after that, cotton pickin'.