{{askye}} I'm so sorry, hon. That's a hard thing to do. How nice that you have traditional place for her final rest.

I've been wondering if the people who bought the house I grew up in did any digging. There's three dogs, four hamsters and scores of gerbils in the front and back yard. The first dog we lost even got a headstone that was covered up by periwinkle within a few years. I hope they haven't decided to tear up that front courtyard and found the stone that says "Chico." That might freak me out if I didn't immediately realize Chico was a pet.

Now Perkins' vee-hick-ul thing has me thinking of John Turturro in O Brother, Where Art Thou saying OB-stack-uls.

Much love, askye.

In pronunciation news, I'm going to have to take a completely contrary position. I love accents and dialects, so odd pronunciations even ones I think are "wrong" don't bother me usually. I love the ways words change on different parts ofthe country and world; plus, who can really say what the correct one is?more standardized, sure, but wrong? I think it just depends on your perception. I'm a liberal commie when it comes to these things, I guess.

Now that I've said this, of course, I'm going to think of a bunch of exceptions.

Well, there are things that are regionalisms or accents and things that are just wrong. They ping very differently.

I'm a liberal commie when it comes to these things, I guess.

I'll be over in the liberal commie corner snorgling Pix. I always have fun when I have characters with accents, trying to evoke that in dialogue without being obnoxious about it. It's a challenge and I have great fun with it.

So long as it's not "tweezles."

I had an editor, one is normally pretty good, change "complement" to "compliment". Don't know how many good editor points he loses for that one but...

Steph, I know you don't use Facebook much, but you should log on and check out Erinaceous’ status.

{{{askye}}} Hang in there, you.

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I'm a liberal commie when it comes to these things, I guess.

I'm with Kristin and Barb...especially after taking the history of the English language course I took last Fall. Fascinating stuff, how the English language has changed. And, really? Each one of those examples above would prove (not the word I'm looking for, but the right word isn't coming) something I learned in that class.

((askye)) Peace~ma.

Feel better ~ma for Raq.

We have no water because of a water - either the water main down the road has broken (again) or the dog worked some magic so she wouldn't get the bath we had planned for her tonight.