[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Speaking 'properly' or not

[Ladi lyndi]

Karen Barker  wrote:
 
Just to give all you Americans a chance for a laugh at a Dumb Brit 
on this subject, many years ago, when I was still a slip of a girl 
and Hill Street Blues was first shown over here, I was rather 
nonplussed by one of the characters whose name appeared to be Hey-
Zeus (In fact at the very beginning I thought it was just Zeus and 
they were greeting him with a 'hey').  It was several episodes 
before I finally got round the reading the credits and realising 
that his name appeared to be Jesus!  This was just as baffling 
thought as you would never find someone from the UK called Jesus and I thought it was kind of taboo!!!


Lynn:

You shouldn't feel dumb.  There are many Americans who don't know how to pronounce it either and say Gee-sus.  I learned how to say it when I was living in the midst of a fairly large Puerta Rican community.  As this was a prominently Catholic community, kids were given either the names of saints or of the Holy Family with Jesus being a favorite.

Lynn







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