Language Geek » Language Humor http://languagegeek.net Just blogging about my language geekery. Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:59:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 A humorous pronunciation mistake http://languagegeek.net/2007/08/09/a-humorous-pronunciation-mistake/ http://languagegeek.net/2007/08/09/a-humorous-pronunciation-mistake/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:57:11 +0000 Josh http://languagegeek.net/2007/08/09/a-humorous-pronunciation-mistake/ My 3 year old recently acquired a liking for the kids’ show, Bob the Builder. He’ll often tell us in the morning: “I want to watch Bob Builder!” He always leaves out the definite article. However, the humorous bit is this: he can’t, for whatever reason, get the end “b” on Bob to come out quite right. Instead of the correct sound, he gets “mb” - thus, he says bomb instead of Bob. Which, of course, brings the full phrase to:

“I want to watch bomb builder!”

I certainly hope the FBI or Homeland Security hasn’t had a reason to bug our home; if they have, we’re going to have some explaining to do.

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