cuzzzzz just recently (on our long long trip back from our NJ roadtrip) I realized that I and pretty much everyone else I know have always pronounced it "Reesies Piecies".
Why did we do that?!
We know (& many love) Reese Witherspoon and, also, I'm pretty positive that all of us are literate.... soo.... why did we add an i where we know it isn't there?
And plus, we know how to pronounce "pieces," right?
Are we just all a little cutesy and secretly/subconsciously would prefer it if everything ended in a high & peppy "eee" sound? Did our parents do this to us? I feel like I've been the victim of years of lies and deceit. Our parents let this happen! Finally I'm coming into my own and this what I find out? That they've withheld the truth of pronunciation and have let me walk around confidently crooning to my candy's equivalent of love, and all along I've been saying it wrong?
Maybe I'm just ultra sensitive to this because I pay grave attention to grammatical detail and I'm a total english geek, but however dramatized, the pain is real.
I don't know if this is old news to you or if you're world is as rocked as mine right now but this situation completely blows my mind.
A friend of mine until a couple of years ago believed Kermit the Frog's "real" name was "Kermithy Frog" and he just went by Kermit for short.
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ahahaha!! that makes me feel much better.. thank you :)
ReplyDeleteand now i, too, am brokeny. that's right... broken. eee. take that.
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