When I was living in England, I used to regularly walk down Belvoir Street on my way to work. One day I was menaced by a large, angry dog (seriously, I thought I was going to be mauled), and I described the incident to a friend.

Her: Where did you say this happened?
Me: Belvoir (Bel-vwahr) Street
Her (baffled): Where?
Me: You know. (describes location of street)
Her: Spell it.
Me: (spells)
Her (enlightenment dawning): Oh! Beaver Street.

Out here we've got Sequim (Skwim), where DH and I are going for our anniversary this year. Also Puyallup (Pyew-AL-up, I think--I still stumble over it). And it was awhile before I realized that the Lake shell-ANN I heard people talking about was the same as the Lake Chelan I saw written out--for some reason I thought that was CHAY-lun.

Needless to say, my boss is still in her meeting, and I'm about to die of hunger.

Steilacoom tends to give non-natives trouble. No idea if Hoquium or Quilcene do.

We're trying to not get him too hyped up about it because he's still not potty trained

Good luck with that. Potty training was a lot of work with our daughter, but a breeze with our son (probably because he had a big sister as a model).

Hee. I knew that Belvoir was pronounced "beaver" - - due to some horse related thing. Possibly a horse and hound related thing.

Hee. Sumi, for horse-related reasons, Belvoir = Beaver would confuse me, due to Vann and Howard Belvoir (bellvwor).

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Steilacoom tends to give non-natives trouble. No idea if Hoquium or Quilcene do

Hmm, let's see if 8 years is long enough for me to get my almost native card...

STILL-a-cum

HO-kwee-um

KWILL-seen

Do I pass?

Today is seriously out of control. And now I have to race to an appointment and leave everything hanging.

Office workers who go to lunch in herds? Worse than tourists.

That's exciting news, Gud.

Emmett's a little anxious about starting Middle School this year.

San Francisco might have universal pre-school by the time Matilda is of age.