Today’s
picture: The Pen and Pencil problem.
Now for today:
I am the world’s worst at pronouncing,
well that is along with many of my southern brethren. When I got orders to
Albany, Georgia, I pronounced it like Albany, NY.. Not so locally, locally it is pronounced ALL-benny,
Georgia.
Once in the USAF I was sent to Biloxi,
Mississippi. I pronounced the name Bi LOX’se
then learning it was
B LUX’ee
Well anyway, it is hard for me to write
and place emphasis on syllables, I am just saying it is hard for me to say
words correctly the first time.
When we started studying the Appalachian
Trail I really messed up the name of the upper terminus in Maine, which is Katahdin,
I had it as ‘CAT-a-den!’ It is really
Ka-tah’ dn. I was off by miles. LOL
My
life has been sorta twisted with so much time in the military. I spent 2 years
as a Marine, 4 years and 100 days in the USAF.
The 100 days was JFK, USSR, & Fidel’s fault. Then President Kennedy
extended all military personnel enlistments 100 days due to him calling the
USSR’s bluff during that 'Cuban Missile Crisis.'
That was the period of time the RUSSIA was planning to establish missile sites in
Cuba and JFK said, “NO YOU ARE NOT!”
Turn the ships around or we will sink them. Russia took their ships back
home, and I took my discharge.
My final tour was 16 years in the
USN. All my various times in service
counted toward my retirement, so I was able to retire with 20 years active
duty.
About Albany, Georgia. That is only about 20 miles south of Jimmy Carter's home, Plains, GA. Remember
the president’s brother Billy Carter? He had a service station in Plains. Even had a beer named after him, Billy Beer!
I stopped by his station and went into the bathroom, while there I signed my
name on the wall along with hundreds of other names. Then leaving, my BIL Sonny and I both bought a
6 pack of Billy Beer. Over time, I drank mine, Sonny never did, his is still around
somewhere, I guess.
Thanks for stopping by,,,
Nite
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7 comments:
We all got some cold fronts moving in we are to be in the 50's today. That's cold enough for me!
What an extremely interesting life you've led!
I found out, coming from Pennsylvania, that I pronounce things differently than a lot of people. lol. In Wisconsin we have a lot of odd names. Grignon is the street John is on and it's pronouce Grin-yon. Several others that slip my mind now...lol... Also, in Green Bay street names change when crossing the river from east to west. Main St becomes Dousman...Monroe Avenue becomes Riverside Drive, etc. Baird becomes Libal...all weird and confusing to new people. Have a wonderful weekend~ Hugs- Diana
I grew up in northern NJ and still have my accent. :). I get teased about it. :)
We've moved a lot in our years in the ministry, and being raised in the south and moving to the far north had some interesting language challenges. I think every state/region has it's own crazy words/names for things, but I think New Maine/New Hampshire had some of the strangest ones. One lady kept asking prayer for someone who'd had a "shock". We asked, "Well what happened that shocked him so bad?". She looked at us like we had ten horns growing out of our heads. Someone else had to chime in and tell us she meant that he'd had a "Stroke". OH! That's a different story altogether! And the oxymorons up there, everything is "Wicked Good"! LOL. And when they go outside the house into the front yard they say they went out into the "door yard". Yeah, we had a lot to learn there!
Now I'm wondering how many of these places I've been "butchering" the pronunciation of -- only folks are too kind to correct me! I'm giggling at Pam's comment above b/c I once worked with a gal from Boston. All these stories would make a good book!
That's a good "virus" meme ... timely, too!
I loved this. Told you people would love it. So, you have a military pension. That is awesome. I have a funny accent it is Chicago, mixed with southern. When I go to Chicago to visit, they think I am southern, here they think I am northern.
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