I have also fallen in love with applique...to discover I have pronounced it wrong :)
08-10-2012, 10:23 AM
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hmmm.... not long ago someone came into the quilt shop where I work and asked for books on "app leek" - took me a while to get to the bottom of that one! She was so excited about the technique that I did suggest a new pronounciation.
08-10-2012, 10:38 AM
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That is alright =my mother past away in 1985 - the other day a piece of paper fell out of a cookbook - it was one of the recipes she had sent me = I always got tickled because she would always spell flour "flower''=It brought back some good memories!!
08-10-2012, 10:45 AM
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Is it to ma toe or ta ma to? LOL
I really have to put my thinking cap on when listenings to the English and how they use words. Really got some experience with the Olympics!
08-10-2012, 10:51 AM
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My husband has dyslexia and he uses words very funny. Now he will say flower when you mean flyers and you would wet yourself if you ask him what Indians wear on their feet! He is such a good guy and just laughs when I point it out to him..we get a good laugh. He has to work extra hard when he read etc but when you know you have a problem you just work it out. And in his day there were no special help for anything like this..they just thought you were dumb...so sad.
08-10-2012, 02:09 PM
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you won't catch this transplanted southern girl laughing. i married a 'northern boy'. I was born in okla. (and i have since learned that is considered south by some) and had lived pretty much my lst 18 yrs south of the mason/dixon line. the lst book we bought when we were married after the bible was a dictionary. so we could settle our word pronouncations legit. my dad was military, and i had moved several times as a kid and thought for sure i knew what was right. HA, every part of the country has their own way of pronoucing words. for sure.
08-10-2012, 02:31 PM
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I'm in agreement with the fact that this has been a truly funny topic. Loved the many stories and how to say what. The only thing that came to my miknd was potato/potato tomato tomato.....well...you get it...LOL
I too love listening to audio books and different accdents and pronunciations.
Thanks for the giggles everyone.....too funny......
Ok off to Ap pli que
I too love listening to audio books and different accdents and pronunciations.
Thanks for the giggles everyone.....too funny......
Ok off to Ap pli que
08-10-2012, 02:45 PM
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"Scraps" -- what a perfect name for the dog of a quilter!
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