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May 2020
1:27pm, 11 May 2020
48,447 posts
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Diogenes
[That's another story - my children say I put the emphasis on the wrong part of many words and phrases, fish fingers, for example.]
Not being a Greek scholar, I read Persephone as Percy-phone.
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May 2020
1:53pm, 11 May 2020
8,416 posts
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Mazlin
Brummies can’t say ‘Kevin’?? 
My mum pronounces my name differently depending on if she’s saying ‘my brother’s name, my name’ or ‘my name, my brother’s name.’ HIS name remains unchanged.
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May 2020
1:56pm, 11 May 2020
17,673 posts
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Serendippily
Oo a grudge Mazlin? It will be because he is taller and therefore more important than you. MrS is a taller twin and is keen to emphasise the inherent links between superiority and height
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May 2020
1:57pm, 11 May 2020
41,553 posts
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Derby Tup
[I like the word clematis. Always sounds like some secret part of a woman’s body that wasn’t discovered til Cosmopolitan found it in 1974]
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May 2020
1:59pm, 11 May 2020
41,554 posts
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Derby Tup
[I’m the slightly shorter, but brighter, wittier, more intelligent, better looking and by far the more modest of twins]
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May 2020
2:19pm, 11 May 2020
8,417 posts
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Mazlin
Not at all. I don’t care that people are so busy looking up at him I’m not even in their eyeline. Or that I’m not a twin, but my younger sibling is so freakishly tall I used to be mistaken for one. *Incoherent grumpy muttering.*
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May 2020
2:23pm, 11 May 2020
41,555 posts
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Derby Tup
Without wanting to drift further off topic when I was in Vietnam once and my colleagues there found out I was a twin, following the usual are you the eldest question they told me that in their country the younger twin is seen as the brightest. They are the one that stays safe inside mum while sending their more gullible sibling out first into the big bad world
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May 2020
2:27pm, 11 May 2020
19,500 posts
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Carpathius
So you're bravest then?
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May 2020
2:31pm, 11 May 2020
19,501 posts
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Carpathius
Oh, and I read 'Hermy-own' for aaages, way past the point in the books where she teaches someone else (and thus readers) how to pronounce it.
In the book she says 'Her-my-OH-knee' but everywhere I've actually heard the name spoken, the stress is 'Her-MY-oh-knee'.
Once I have the pronunciation of something in my head, I find it really hard to change it upon learning it was incorrect.
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May 2020
2:33pm, 11 May 2020
1,704 posts
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Surelynot
In Scotland, a large number of people pronounce 'definitely' as 'de-fin-Ate-ly.'
In my experience, it's a West Coast/Glasgow habit.
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