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To: Rambi who wrote (1087)	4/5/1998 5:48:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Penni, I did a lot of similar things. One of the problems with being an autodidact or a kid who's an avid reader without anyone to discuss things with, is that you can know and understand a word very well but mispronounce it just the same. The only one which comes to mind is "subtle" which I recall mispronouncing and thereby amusing some other people. I child of an acquaintance of mine named her dog BEE-thaw-ven, and it took several days for her mother to realize that the dog had been named after the famous composer. Jack

To: Rambi who wrote (1087)	4/8/1998 4:18:00 PM
From: Sowbug	Respond to of 4710

But did you humiliate yourself in front of an entire roomful of adults as I did at the age of 7 when I announced that I was going to my room because I was -fat'-i-gued? I did similar things (at age 9, I believed the name of the programming language for the Apple II computer was "In-TEE-grr" BASIC, not Integer BASIC). But I consoled myself with the theory that mispronouncing words, particularly syllable and vowel errors, was a sign of juvenile erudition. How else would you have arrived at that error without sitting alone in your room, reading like a good little bookworm, while all the other kids were out playing?