As a Wisconsin grad, I can’t say H-A-W-K-E-Y-E, or W-O-L-V-E-R-I-N-E, so I totally get it.
How is Burma a dirty word?
I can’t say uvula without cracking up. Even though I know its just that dangly thing in the back of your throat, it just sounds dirty…
I recently said the word “virgin*” in front of my four year-old daughter.
:eek:
I’m a bad parent. 
*The sentence: “Another idea I was disabused of in The African Queen is I was absolutely convinced that Victorian-era missionaries were all virgins.”
However, the woman’s eyes might have bulged that way because I misread the relationship between Hepburn and Bogart… but I’m quite positive that they did it.
It isn’t, the post just made me think of Seinfeld. What doesn’t?!?
Try saying this out loud:
Wankel Rotary Engine
Did you feel embarrassed?
It’s nothing to worry about. It’s all part of growing up and being British.
Thanks, I enjoyed that.
Just to let you know, this is likely the fault of the address correction software they are using, not the typist. Standalone “N”, “E”, “W”, and “S” 's automatically gets transcribed to their directional names… North, East, etc.
They’ll also do crap like take “Northpoint Dr” and make it “N Point Dr”, which is an entirely different creature.
I live on a numbered street; where English ordinal numbers would have -th, French ordinal numbers have -e, so 8e Avenue (not my real street).
I’ve only been here two months and already a number of people have guessed that I live on 8 East Avenue. I haven’t decided whether to use the alternative spelling 8ème, write it out as Huitième, or just wuss out and write it in English: 8th Avenue.
What about Sexauer tools?
Dear Og I need help, the first things that came to my mind was “Tits”
Don’t worry about it. I think it just means you’re a normal, adult male. 
This isn’t a bit surprising. There are people who are reluctant to say “God.” On this very board there are those who won’t even write it, writing “G-d” instead.
In the C. S. Forester novel they had sex while on the rapids at the time the propellor shaft was bent and they were straightening it.
The G-d usage is often a Jewsih thing, where there is a prohibition on writing teh name of G-d.
It’s more a traditional, respect convention rather than an uncomfortableness in saying the name of G-d.
But they aren’t bouncy, they feel like bags of sand. /40-Year-Old Virgin