Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 05, 2015

He’s a poet, but he don’t know it.

If she’d paid for it he would have fleeced her.

Pastis alert!

As I was told by a native North Carolinian, there are two ways to pronounce Leicester – depending on where one is from or emigrated to. In colonial times, you learned under pain of death to pronounce it right for the region you were in.

Does he REALLY pronounce ‘Leicester’ to rhyme with ‘Easter’?Is that usual in the US?

Leicester, Massachusetts is pronounced LESTER.

Holyoke = City in Massachusetts

“Mr. Mallet, I have Mr. Pastis’ lawyer on line two.”

Correct. The geometry is correct for Massachusetts, but the town pronunciation does not fit the rhyming scheme; it’s “lester”, as is that of the Leicester in England it was named after. (not always the case here in MA. That last bit was a surprise to me just now.)

It’s really a tragedy when someone constructs a joke to demonstrate how awesomely smart they are, but screws up the pronunciation.

Friend in England called “Beaulieu” “Bewley” when we were there. Guess that’s how it’s pronounced over there.

Happy Easter

@richardelguruOf all the areas in the US that are named Leicester, most pronounce it LESS-ter; in Vermont it’s LIE-ster. I haven’t found anywhere in the US it’s pronounced LEE-ster. Happy Easter!

I love the looks on the faces of the other kids in the class. Like “why are you wasting our time again?”