As a result of the way my teachers spoke, I got to a surprisingly ripe stage of education thinking the dot between whole number and fraction (e.g., 1.5) was a "dezmo pawnt," and wrote it that way. In Sunday school, I learned that Abraham's son was named "Izey," and nobody could persuade me otherwise. And I blew one of those matching exercises when I found "Richard Nixon" in column A, but no "praz-dinn" in column B.

Adam