Pickles by Brian Crane for May 04, 2017

Do what I do, Opal. Hit the “mute” button on the remote the instant the commercials start. Then you don’t have to hear the annoying things.

reminds me of that one “Fox Trot” strip where Andy freaks out over someone mispronouncing a word (which I forgot which) and son Jason takes to the next level with “nuclear” on purpose

There is a furniture outlet near me that always has a sale on “Fridee, Sadee and Sundee”

Thank you, Opal. I hear this error often and I find it equally annoying! As bad as, “suppozubly” for “supposedly”.

Have you ever noticed that news anchormen/women on TV always say, "Here is correspondent so-and-so with “de-TAILS”, rather than “DE-tails”. It may not be wrong (I’m not sure), but who, in reality, speaks this way?

They say jewry round hea(pronounced he-yah)

I could probably tolerate all of that if people would just stop USING LIKE ALL THE TIME. Ahem. Sorry about that. Excuse me, please.

Lol! This made me realize that I have been pronouncing jewelry wrong. Sorry Opal but thanks for the instruction.

I don’t know how they pronounce it in Canada, but they spell it “jewellery”. I thought it was misspelled the first time I saw it, natch. (At least in the Ontario province.)

President Bush’s “Nu-cu-ler” used to do that to me.

I’d just let her blink herself to sleep…

Americans and their cousins in Great Britain frequently mispronounce common usage words. Modern speech is influenced by regional accents and colloquial expressions.

We are all guilty of our " jewelry/jewlery " types of mispronunciations.

I admit, some are more annoying than others but as I grow more tolerant , in my old age, I no longer point out linguistic errors to others, – especially, since no matter how hard I try to avoid it, I am just as guilty.

Very good Mr. Crane! Sneaky too! You garnered 33 comments on this strip alone. You know the buttons to push!

I am so with you on this one, Opal. Drives me nuts.

There’s a wonderful invention called the “Remote” Usually comes with the TV.

xxx

Don’t watch that show in Feb-you-ary, it will really make you twitch.

It might drive her crazy to hear jewelry translated to German.

How about….comfort-able. Or, for some, comf-trble.

Potato, potahto…Tomato, tomahto…