Sunday, October 12, 2025

Picky-Picky Hate Mail

NO, I HADN'T NOTICED that I wrote "lock him up and trow away the key" until you pointed it out.  I don't recall, exactly but I may have heard my Irish grandfather say that when i was very young.   He had the vestiges of an Irish accent, no doubt from his mother who stepped off the boat from County Cork as a girl of 15 before she married the next year and settled in one of the smaller towns around Boston.  Alas, she died before I was born so I never met her.  I believe she spoke Irish though she didn't teach that to her children.  I really wish I could speak it but only know a few phrases.    

I won't fix it because I rather like that pronunciation in that phrase and because it bugged you enough to point it out.  Eejit. 

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