i remember kumudam teacher reading out a poem about a small baby -- and reading-- mewing and puking --as pucking. A few seconds later, Mahesh A was asked to get out. I now realise he must have rhymed pucking to her annoyance.
Kaisa laga? On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:13 PM, subramaniam sreenivasan < [email protected]> wrote: > I do make a lot of spelling mistakes ... Thank god for spellcheck these > days. I am sure if I make grammatical mistakes as well .. > > I remember this at school (probably 8th standard) when Amin Bulsari was > asked to read from the english book and he read Rhinoceros as Rhino-Cors > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:56:26 +0000 > Subject: Re: nice way to combat common english mistakes :) > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > Hey Nayan, > > I hope you didn't think I was picking on you, did you? > > The idea was to bring and discuss people's favourite/pet mistake. Mine > being the error in spelling "occasion" and many more. Since I already knew > yours I mentioned that. And this was because it was discussed a while ago. > > Of course, it doesn't matter even if you make mistakes and even i am guilty > of never reading what I write, until i hit the send button. And it is my > profession!!! > > I had a childhood friend who was quite anal about spellings...question or > contest him and he would immediately run to the dictionary and prove himself > right. > A many years ago, while in a gossip session, i said, "your illicit > relationship..." and he laughed and said it is illict (pronounced as illikt) > and not ill-is-it. He had never realised there is an i before the last > letter. I protested quite confidently this time. > > And he again ran to the dictionary and was completely shocked to know that > all the while when he was reading the cover pages of Stardust, filmfare > and gossip fares, he just didn't notice the 'i'. > > This is what i meant by mistakes which may be silly but refuse to get > shaken off. > > Long mail? Well i have to make up for the lullness off late in the group, > nai? > > Arch > > > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it > now.<http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469228/direct/01/> >
