I say pah-tat-o
You say tomato
I say to-mot-o
Let's call the whole thing off
-- Cole Porter

"Words, words, words"
-- Hamlet

Ok, first in news, a huge rat ran across the road in front of me the other day on the way to work. It made me want to puke, really, it did. Why did the rat cross the road? To get to the better garbage can on the other side? Who knows. Anyway, it was nasty. Again, like previous bug entry, why do rats exist? What is their purpose? They carry disease and stuff, they don't do anything good that I know of, so what the deal?

Now, onto words. Johnny Depp is starring in "Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl". Do you say Care -uh - be - uhn or Cuh-rib-e-uhn?

What about research? Is it ruh-search or rE-search?

And my favorite -- data -- dat-uh or date-uh?

Don't you always kind of feel weird in a meeting and you say, uh, yes, we need to tie that date-uh base in with this site. And someone else says, what's the purpose for the dat-uh base? Then you start in again, well, the date-uh base serves this function. Then them, well, do you have to build this dat-uh base from scratch? Does it drive you nuts?

I don't care that I speak differently from other folks, that's fine. It is just a little twlight zone for me to have a conversation and hear the same freakin' word pronounced different ways.

Ok, enough with that, "E-- ther, eye- ther, Nee-ther, Ni-ther, Let's call the whole thing off" (Insert snaps in a Z formation here)

Amy