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Hi, I want to share a story with you. I grew up orally as I was the only Deaf in a hearing family. When I was about 4 to 6 years old my older cousins always made me recite the nursery rhyme "Little Miss Muffet" again and again. So I would say it "Little Miss Muffet....." When I was finished they would bust up laughing and tell me "tell me again, tell me again!" So I would recite it again. When I was older at a family reunion my cousins asked me "do you remember when you were small we'd make you recite Little Miss Muffet then we all laughed? Do you know why?" I said "I thought it was silly to be scared of a spider". They said "No, it's because you couldn't pronounce "curds and whey" you always said "turds and whey".
3 comments:
Oh dear. I can remember similar events in my family or hearing friends...are you sure you weren't saying "turds and wee"? No wonder!
Nice, though, to make people so happy at our expense sometimes, eh?
;-)
It's a cute mispronunciation. Many children, deaf or hearing, have this experience when they are small and learning how to speak or pronounce things. "Basketti" instead of "spaghetti" was my son's cute mispronunciation.
~ LaRonda
Nice of your cousin to let you know why they did that later on. Smile.
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