When the flowering trees and bulbs, etc., are so showy, it’s easy to skip by the less flashy plants. Here’s our hosta, just leafing out, christened by the rain….
I was confused by the word “burgeon” when I first encountered it because several of my schoolmates had the family name Bergeon, so the word was anchored in my brain as “just a name.” How many times did I go wrong with assumptions like that?
26 March 2009 at 7:05 am
kayak woman says:
At about 8, I read the entire book “The Mighty Soo”, pronouncing “Colonel” in my head just the way it looks on paper. Same kind of thing with “Chicago” — Chick-a-go, emphasis on “Chick”.
26 March 2009 at 8:47 am
Pooh says:
I was subbing in a gifted class. The 3rd graders were using on-line dictionaries to look up vocabulary words. The program would also pronounce the words. “Ek-sent-tric”, said the machine. “EE-sent-tric”, said my brain. How did I go this far in life pronouncing “eccentric” so EEcentricly?
26 March 2009 at 4:48 pm
kayak woman says:
I’ll just about bet dollars that both pronunciations are acceptable.