Hey Rush, I know you were tweaking us today by pronouncing sniper with a short i.
My dad used to mess around with the renunciation of words too. Made my mom furious.
“Don’t DO that” she’d say. “People won’t know your kidding and think you’re stupid”.
LOL!
My husband does that all the time. I tell him that he is going to embarrass the hell out of himself some day when someone thinks he is serious. And I will pretend I do not know him when that happens. Promise.