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To: Savage Beast

I went to a Catholic elementary school from grade 3 - 8.

All our teachers were nuns. I’d come from a public system where they didn’t teach script writing til 3rd grade but the Catholic schools taught it in 2nd grade so I learned to connect my block letters with a a little loop. ;-)

Once, maybe fifth or sixth grade, I will never forget, I was called on to read a passage from the book we were reading.

I was a reader from forever, proud of my well-read background but ran across, reading out loud, in class, the word “dilapidated” and pronounced it “” dilli-pet-dated”.

Some in the class tittered and I said a bad word.

It wasn’t the first time, but I was commanded “Front of the class - hands out out, palms down! Whap! Hard slap across my knuckles. Later I learned to keep my hands farther apart so she could only hit one hand.

Just a 12” ruler but man it hurt. “Back to your seat” was all she said. No lecture, no nothing. Just “Back to your seat”.

Nobody giggled or laughed after that. A similar fate awaited them.

Perhaps of no import to you but anytime I ran across a new word I’d look it up for its pronunciation.

Canapes were not “Can Napes”, They were “can a pays”.

Lots more and I still can’t spell “Hors d’oeuvres” (neither does this spell checker) but I know how to pronounce it. ;-)


32 posted on 04/10/2020 11:13:42 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Tunehead54

Lots more and I still can’t spell “Hors d’oeuvres”

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Fred Sanford pronounced it horse divers. I’ve said that ever since. (not in public)


33 posted on 04/11/2020 12:19:35 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Best left handed banjo picker on my entire block)
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