not coming from a religous family, but having been put into a Christian school for my problem behavior, i scanned the front of the Bible for “salms”, as directed by our teacher. frustrated that i could not find it, i peeked at my classmates Bible. “oh, Pal-sums!” i blurted out. wasent there for more than 2 weeks.
my dad just found out that “lol” does not mean “lots of love”
i nearly ran off the road listening to a talk show when a caller used the word hyperbole and pronounced it hyper-bowl, then a few minutes later asked to host to quit “lamblasting” him. lol, even now.
Until about 2 or 3 years ago, I thought that the word ‘bureau’ was said 'ba-roo." No joke. I still thank God that only my sister and Dad were in the room when I said it. If it had been my brother or even my friends…I don’t think I would have ever lived it down (I’m turning red right now, if you were wondering).
I am 40 years old, aced every English test I ever took, won spelling bees, etc. But the following sentence would still make me stumble to read it out loud:
“It is the EPITOME of HYPERBOLE as to the MACABRE events which went AWRY in the GAZEBO.”
I probably have mispellings from mentally struggling to not say,
“It is the EPI-TOME of HYPER-BOWL-LEE as to the MAC-COB-RUH events which went AW-REE in the GAZE-BO.”
Like Garrison Keeler says, learning phonics can scar you for life when you grow up in a town where you can go for years without hearing any of the above words.
This weekend, I learned something new about my husband!!
He didn’t know that you could go through a bank’s drive-through service if you don’t have your own deposit slip and/or pen. The BEST thing is that our bank has a little stand next to the vacuum tube with deposit slips in it. He just didn’t think about the fact that they can SEND YOU STUFF through that little tube-y thing!!
Okay, I don’t get this… 
Can someone explain it please?
because we’re living in a cheerio world and I’m just a cheerio girl
hth