A venerable Oxford professor of English was speaking with a student one day, when the boy offered him tea.
"Would you care for sugar?" asked the boy. "By the way, did you know sugar is the only word in the English language where Su is pronounced Sh?" he continued, smugly.
The old Professor sipped his tea and asked politely
"Are you sure about that? I might take issue with your self assurance, oh dear, you spilled your tea, do have a tissue."
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Blessyou for the old joke and the riposte.
Qwate rate old bean.
However, my dialect is a bit I dunno posher yanno like uno Received Pronunciation I asyoom like yanno what these books say it like.
waitingforgodo
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July 4, 2021
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Preshumably the EngIish professor's mispronunciation of issue, assurance and tissue was accompanied by a stern "get out 'azell".
waitingforgodo
Level 8
July 3, 2021
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What mispronounciation?
When in my very early teens my then English master, an effete man from the south of England, had the rest of the class laugh at my pronunciation of the name of the character in a Dickens novel, a Mr Lorry. They all pronounced it "lurry" but being sycophants . . .
In Lancashire where I was born & unashamed to live for the first 26 formative years of my life we frequently prononounce "o" as "u". Mr Lorry therefore is Mr Lurry. The usual term of endearment & recognition "love" expressed to all women whether romantically involved or not, was "luv" as in "hello luv", "thanks luv", "see you luv", "what price is that luv", "can you help me luv".
It is a genuine recognition of another human not as today's wokes & me tooers would have it sexual harrassment or disrespect.
@waitingforgodo Well that's a surprise, most people do not know that Hazell with two l's has a completely different etymological root to Hazel with one, and should actually be pronounce with the French soft h.
Bravo 
@LenHazell53 I will henceforth address you as exotic sounding Monsieur ‘azell…and not that nutty Mr. Hazel !
@Marionville Are you sure that you spelt that correctly Marje?
@FrayedBear Yes!
@Marionville I think that with "r" more appropriate - as in "sensualist".
@LenHazell53, @Marionville what does Len say? 
@FrayedBear I’m afraid you lost me somewhere …I’ve no idea to what you refer…?
@Marionville erotic not exotic as in sensualist.
@FrayedBear No…I intended to say exotic…although perhaps erotic would work better for you. Most things described as exotic can frequently be considered pretty erotic too I guess.
Ello:
Neat.
Over-eagerness to impress can be one’s undoing!
Marionville
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