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conuly
At first, I had no idea what the kid down the block meant, so I just waited until he showed up with some chalk and figured that, at the age of five, he still had some trouble with pronunciation.
I was disabused of this notion when a different child (with a very strange name - I'd say her mother was reacting to a lifetime of being Jennifer 3 all the time, but then the woman up and named her new baby Jennifer!) used the same pronunciation.
I'm assured by family friend Michele that this is as historically valid as aks instead of ask, but I've never heard it, and because of that fact, unlike aks, it really grates on my ears. And google has no knowledge of this, either. Searches for chark just get me information on sharks. Gah.
Of course, chalk is a pretty unattractive word no matter how you say it. I wish I could frindle a new word into existence to take the place of it. Ugly word.
I was disabused of this notion when a different child (with a very strange name - I'd say her mother was reacting to a lifetime of being Jennifer 3 all the time, but then the woman up and named her new baby Jennifer!) used the same pronunciation.
I'm assured by family friend Michele that this is as historically valid as aks instead of ask, but I've never heard it, and because of that fact, unlike aks, it really grates on my ears. And google has no knowledge of this, either. Searches for chark just get me information on sharks. Gah.
Of course, chalk is a pretty unattractive word no matter how you say it. I wish I could frindle a new word into existence to take the place of it. Ugly word.
