Untill eleventh grade, I thought there was a word "derbis", prounounced "durbis", distinct from the word "debree", which meant the same thing.
Yet I realized there was something funny about the words, which I realize in retrospect must have been the fact that I never saw "debree" in print, and never heard "derbis" said out loud.
Needless to say, my classmates were quite confused when I started talking about "flying derbis" in class one day.
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Date: 2004-12-20 11:24 pm (UTC)Yet I realized there was something funny about the words, which I realize in retrospect must have been the fact that I never saw "debree" in print, and never heard "derbis" said out loud.
Needless to say, my classmates were quite confused when I started talking about "flying derbis" in class one day.