>>>"Sally Polly was a teacher who taught.
>>>and her brother was a preacher who praught,
>>>though his enemies called him a screacher who scraught."
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>>Hilmar,
>>LOL
>>Although... I will mention the mis-spelling of 'screecher' even though intentional.
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>Well, I copied it from memory, and I don't remember what it said in the original. I had actually confused the spelling.
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>> I always find it amusing that we of foreign birth have a better appreciation of the vagaries of the English language.
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>May I ask where you are from? (I was born in Tübingen, close to Stuttgart, Germany, and live in Bolivia since I was a 1-year-old baby.)
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>Hilmar.

Hilmar,
I was born in Heidelberg, Germany. Came to USA when I was 6. Spent some time in Canada, then came to to US to stay. I've been back to Europe/Germany several times on company trips. All my relatives are supposedly gone, so when I got my citizenship I Americanized my name.
I expect you've got a lot German folks down there, since a lot of people fled there during the war.

Here's one you can really appreciate:
Spoken by The Count, (a Muppet of a Transylvanian vampire, teeth, cape and all, with a deep Transylvanian accent)from Sesame Street, (a children's program) as he's serving dinner to another Muppet.
"It's KroopKee, our national fish. They taste terrible, but there are plenty of them."
Pete