You say potayto, and I say potahto . . .

Amusing. My wife, Mitsuko, taped a show about Hawaii the other day, and was watching it at lunchtime. I happened to ask, "Would you like a ukulele?" (pronouncing it the way I had learned - you-kih-lay-lee). She looked very puzzled, then said, "Oh, you mean a ukurere?" (oo-koo-ray-ray, with that wonderful soft r). The English dictionaries indicate that "you-kah-lay-lee" (I was close -- bet that was Dad's Ohio accent that turned the kah into ki) is the right pronounciation, but now we both wonder what the original Hawaiian was?

Fun - a word that both languages have borrowed, but not quite the same way.

Writing Excuses #17: This Sucks and I'm a Horrible Writer

Writing Excuses #17: This Sucks and I'm a Horrible Writer

http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/06/01/writing-excuses-episode-17-this-sucks-and-im-a-horrible-writer/

The podcast started with a vocal flub that I won't try to reproduce, except that it led to the theme being "15 minutes because you're in a hurry, and we're apparently all high."
( oops . . . )

Consider this as the first line of your piece.

Barry knew his mumbling was going to get him killed someday.

Go, write.