10 Comments

1. Kristy said . . .
   

   Too embarrassed to say Paella out loud?! Shout it from the rooftops!

   Now THIS is a meme I could love…

   Posted March 23, 2006 at 3:49 pm | Permalink
2. Sylvia said . . .
   

   Excellent, I’m in!

   And hey, why can’t I select your text?!?

   Posted March 23, 2006 at 4:01 pm | Permalink
3. Ella said . . .
   

   Quick! Tag someone!

   I admire the fact that you can spell broccoli correctly. I can do it, but I have to think of how Spiccoli (of Fast Times at Ridgemont High - a movie I have never actually seen, just read about) is spelled. How sad is that? Sad.

   Posted March 23, 2006 at 5:46 pm | Permalink
4. mrsd said . . .
   

   You’re so smart. No, really! :)

   Hi, my name is mrsd, and I use Spellcheck.

   Posted March 23, 2006 at 11:30 pm | Permalink
5. Julie said . . .
   

   Oh, wow, I forgot about the tagging aspect of memes. Ok, since you’ve shown interest: I hereby tag Kristy and Sylvia. I get the feeling from mrsd that she’d rather not be tagged, am I right? And I should add that my fear of saying paella out loud does not stop me from ordering it in restaurants. I just hold up the menu, point, and say “I’ll have that.” No worries. :)

   Posted March 24, 2006 at 7:34 am | Permalink
6. Green-Eyed Lady(GEL) said . . .
   

   LOL- too embarrassed to say a food word. That’s a great ending to a post where I need to look up the meanings of some of those other words. I thought I used to teach English.

   Posted March 24, 2006 at 9:20 am | Permalink
7. Nixie Knox said . . .
   

   Yeah, you’re back! Yippee!

   Posted March 25, 2006 at 4:30 pm | Permalink
8. purple_kangaroo said . . .
   

   What a great meme. I’m going to have to do this one–I love words.

   Paella is one of those Spanish words where the double l has a y sound. Pah-ay-ah.

   My grandpa lived in Mexico most of his life, and always said llama with a y instead of the l. It sounded funny, but it was kind of cute.

   Posted March 25, 2006 at 10:50 pm | Permalink
9. Fatherworm said . . .
   

   Foreign words and names I hate to mispronounce in order to stave off accusations of… what? Pedantry? Old fogeyism? Typical Fatherwormism-ha-ha-ha?

   Potatoes au gratin, au jus, rugalach, manicotti, panne cotta, Sissy Spacek, Vladimir Putin, Duke of Leicester, Gotterdammerung, efcharisto.

   But what is a meme?

   Posted March 30, 2006 at 11:27 pm | Permalink
10. Veronica Mitchell said . . .
    

    I love this meme. First one that’s looked really interesting to me.

    Posted April 12, 2006 at 10:32 pm | Permalink