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Thread #146189   Message #3384781
Posted By: Mrrzy
01-Aug-12 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Mrrzy's Mom, atheist & Holocaust survivr
Subject: RE: Obit: Mrrzy's Mom, atheist & Holocaust survivr
Thank you all.

Some tidbits:

She pronounced both V and W as W. Thus interesting words, like wowel (not a consonant), wiper (snake) and so on.

When asked where her accent came from, she said it came from trying to speek eenglish.

Her control of idioms was very like Ricky Ricardo's - for "as easy as shooting fish in a barrel" she once came up with "as easy as shooting a duck in the chest."

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