(From the ‘sarahwho?’ page on my website:

“Here are things I like that drive him [Zack] bonkers: Mates of State, rice & beans, icanhascheezburger.com, how I tend to drop letters out of words when I speak, and Pride and Prejudice.”

I admit, I say a lot of words strangely. I don’t do it because I have a weird accent, or because I was raised as a non-native speaker.  I’m from Texas, and English is my native language.  It’s more a product of my nurture, really, my family tends to hang onto inside jokes longer than most.  Over 10 years ago, we had a friend who heard Coyotes howling and said, “There’s wolf-es in the faux-west!” Obviously meaning wolves and forest, the boy (who was maybe 5 at the time?) said it exactly that way: wolf-es and faux-west.  Needless to say, the family and I still often tell each other about the wolfes and the fauxwest.  This tendency to say words in correctly is maybe childish, but a lot of fun, and it always gets giggles from SisterKaty, and isn’t that what really matters in life?  

That being said, here’s a conversation that happened today between Zack and me.  He’s obviously gotten used to the way that I speak.)

me: Have you checked to see if we can have Fios at the new house?
him: No, but I think so.  There’s a chimney.
me: (silent, wondering what the crap kind of correlation there is between chimneys and high speed internet…)
him: If we do have fires there, they’ll have to be really small, though.  Cause that fireplace is really teeny.