Yesterday, at the bottom of Sunday’s blog, I wrote: “P.S. Herb, I enjoyed talking to you! And, we are looking forward to seeing you and Karen!”
As soon as I posted that blog, I called Kinky to tell him that Herb had called, and he and his wife, Karen, from Massachusetts, would like to come down here and visit us in January! Kinky was delighted with the news and said, “That’s great, Nance, but I hope you pronounced his name correctly. It’s Herb not Erb.”
“I know it’s Herb and dog-gone-it—I did mispronounce it,” I said.
“That’s great, Nancy,” Kinky said, without enthusiasm. “It stands for Herbert— Herrrrrr-bert, not Errrrrr-bert.”
“Darn it Kinky, I know it stands for Herrrr-bert, but I can’t help it!” I tried to explain. “Kinky, for some reason, when I was in elementary school up in Fort Worth, my teachers taught us to pronounce Herb and Huge with the ‘H’ being silent. So, all my life I have been pronouncing Herb as Erb and Huge as Uge and Tony is always teasing me about it. I think it is just my North Texas accent.”
“Okay, Nance, I understand, but please try to work on it, before they get here.”
“I will, I promise,” I stated. “One last thing Kink, did you know that sometimes, when you answer your phone, you say, ‘Ellooooooooo.......?”’
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