kitchen table math, the sequel: just let me staple the vicar...

Saturday, September 14, 2013

I am going to try to get back on track here any minute now....but, in the meantime, and via Language Log, here is Peter Kay.

FedUpMom said...: This is funny, but there's a British vs. American English problem. I doubt there's such a thing as an American popular song that even uses the word "vicar". Similarly, an American would never hear "our soul" as "****hole".; September 16, 2013 at 11:33 AM
FedUpMom said...: Also, there's an American song that I for years misheard as a complaint about a "medieval woman". It's by Electric Light Orchestra.; September 16, 2013 at 11:35 AM
Anonymous said...: Very funny!

SusanS; September 16, 2013 at 2:38 PM
Anonymous said...: I had a hard time with the first few minutes because I didn't know the original songs. Then I quit listening.

But my mother-in-law hears an AC/DC song lyrics as "dirty jeans, tie-dyed cheap."

Now I do too :-)

-Mark Roulo; September 16, 2013 at 5:24 PM
FedUpMom said...: Peter Kay speaks non-standard English; he uses "were" for "was", as in, "I thought it were 'birdseed'"! I don't know what his dialect is.

Part of the "vicar" problem is that in Black English, a short "i" is used where White English uses a short "e", so, for instance, "pen" is pronounced like "pin". That's how "record" can be heard as "vicar".; September 17, 2013 at 6:13 AM