Fox Pearls
I had Deep Tea with my dear friend Hyacinth today. She was reading out loud from USA Today ( why? who knows. I try to keep her amused.) So Hyachinth is reading this astounding biography of Barbara Bush and mentions her "Fox" pearls. I lifted up my heavy eyelids and asked, "Come again?", and she replied, "Fox, Fox pearls". I didn't have the will to attempt to explain to the difference between Fox and Faux, but the smirk on my face must have spoke volumns.
posted by Alexis du Bois @ 7:21 PM
8 Comments:
I'm just surprised that Babs doesn't wear real pearls!
P.S. I think it's OK to gently correct a friend's grammatical faux pas. They will thank you for it someday.
Now that was a "tragicula" moment. Fox pearls. Giiiiiiirl ain't yo moma told you? Holy hell I would have peed myself.
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High tea? Deep tea? I prefer the high of high tea, if the company is boring at least you're high.
My English teacher used to tell me that if someone mispronounced a word but used it in the correct context, it proved that person was a great reader.
But then, what did she know? She was a half-bald member of the house church who openly admitted to us that she "spoke in tongues" on many a weekend. Shudder.
Hyacinth sounds like a lovely lady, by the way.
Oh, Hyacinthe always calls it Deep Tea. I really don't know what he thinking about that it, but's it is so harmless as to be let go. I don't know, maybe it's a "deep" discussion; or maybe it's the "deep" pockets she has to take a teaspoon or something. She is a dear, though.
OMG, Graham, an English teach that spoke in toungues... Did you take English in Salem, MA?
I would have poked her eyes out with my tea spoon for that.
Baby Daddy, you are fresh!
Don't encourage him.
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