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To: SMARTY
A British General asked Ike, "Where did you learn to pronounce 'school' like that?

A perfect example of a line in a Most Interesting Man in the World parody called The Most English Man in the World:

“He can’t understand the speech of people from 50 miles away in his own country, yet insists to Americans that the way he pronounces words is correct.”

44 posted on 08/08/2025 5:13:25 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: Pilsner

Correction to what I said at first:

Brits said schedule as ‘SHedule’ and asked where he learned to say it as SKedule

He said he learned it at ‘SKool’

I guess, the ‘correct’ way is the way you were taught and the way you understand it


62 posted on 08/08/2025 7:04:09 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Pilsner

Why do you think we went to war with the Brits. We moved to the next hemisphere and they still wanted to be the grammar police. And we just were not going to let that stand.


67 posted on 08/08/2025 8:14:47 AM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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