Did you ever feel stupid? (and gentle corrections)

[Doreen Rich]

> Here's an unrelated (to the original topic, anyway) question: has 
> there ever been a situation where you've had to "correct" (for lack 
> of a better word) your SO (significant other) that caused you quite 
a 
> bit of internal turmoil?  Like, for instance, he continually spells 
> your sister's name wrong, or YOUR name wrong (true cases, 
concerning 
> my current SO and an ex-SO respectively)?  What were your solutions?
> 
> Jennifer (not Jenifer, nor Jeniffer)

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In my case, it is my mother who does the mispronunciations. I swear 
that she does it just to annoy me. 

I used to say, "Oh, I thought it was pronounced like this, rather 
than like that." She would agree with me, like she really knew better 
but had slipped. Then, the next time she would say the word, it would 
be back to her own way. *sigh*

She says, "cudamin" instead of "cumadin" 
          "canine pepper" ... which cracked me up and had my daughter 
in stitches. Then one day, my son-in-law said it too. My daughter 
laughed til she couldn't even speak. He kept asking her, "What?!" and 
she would just laugh even harder. The whole time, she was thinking 
that she couldn't wait til she could call me. (In September we will 
all be together. I have been devising topics to steer the 
conversation towards Mexican food. I know ... I am purely evil)

I don't know what to tell you about your SO, but as for my mother, I 
think she does it to be different or to see if you are paying 
attention. I will never change her, so I have stopped trying. It does 
make for amusing conversation between my daughter and me.

Doreen