Friday, July 25, 2008

Illustration Friday - Canned

Warning: people who mispronounce certain words may be canned.
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29 comments:

  1. mitchowl10:34 AM

    I agree. I always cringe a little when I hear them. ha ha
    Good job.

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  2. Roberta12:38 PM

    I'll remember that.

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  3. Anonymous1:18 PM

    As usual very funny and/or creative. You took your time today and added color. Great illustration.

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  4. INDIGENE3:26 PM

    I love the color and I absolutely agree! Now someone tell the teenagers...:)

    www.indigeneartforms.blogspot.com

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  5. keri5:17 PM

    And don't forget JEWELRY!

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  6. Unknown6:48 PM

    Guilty as charged.

    Cheers!
    Son

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  7. valerie walsh6:58 PM

    The sooner the better I say :)

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  8. Ces Adorio7:48 PM

    Willie you are slacking off. Only no. 53 this time? I had to scroll to get to you.

    Why, are there other ways of pronouncing these words. I hate it when people think the s in Asterisk is silent.

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  9. Bella Sinclair10:43 PM

    I couldn't agree more! When I was a full-time working mom, I hired a sweet nanny who mispronounced soooo many words. Took a while to "unlearn" my kid!

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  10. Anonymous11:52 PM

    Irregardless, it bugs me most when people can't say "anonymity" or "juggernaut."

    I am totally serious. Not about irregardless, but those other two. I see it coming when they are reading aloud and they start to pause and falter and I think, not again, does no one read anymore? And I know that is just a *itchy schoolteacher grousing but some days my inner schoolmarm ventures forth and thinks these things.

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  11. Anonymous1:21 AM

    That stalk of lone standing flower on the right looks like a sentry over any mispro. Or an old-fashioned principal in her stern bulging bespectacled eyes.

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  12. Janets Planet10:21 AM

    LOL. Now today I will be thinking about all those mispronounced words that bug me.

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  13. rachel stoleru haim10:53 AM

    Hey, thanks for your comment on my blog.
    I'm not a native english speaker, so I had to look the term up (uncanny) in the dictionary. I'm patting on my own back for doing so. I'm now proudly educated and amused :))

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  14. Anonymous4:33 PM

    I agree totally but I am very guilty of this. Colourful illustration.

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  15. hablasballena8:16 PM

    Hey W, very nice piece. I like your work, it's been a while I don't look around but your job is still as conceptual as a time before. Clap.
    Hugs

    Mau

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  16. studio lolo10:19 AM

    I have a friend who keeps bringing up just how smart she is. She mispronounces more words than anyone I know. "Supposevly" is one of her most used faux pas! And she pronounces Avante Garde as "avante gard-ay!" I have never corrected her. I just sit back and quietly enjoy the irony.

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  17. Anna Nadler6:33 PM

    Very hilarious! I'd also add "February".

    If I hear "febuary" one more time...oh boy! hehe

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  18. Ellen6:52 PM

    Nice one Willie!

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  19. Josh (musarter)10:27 AM

    Great idea and funny as usual.

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  20. erin11:34 AM

    I confess, I say "fustrate" instead of "frustrate" but always correct people, in my best Homer Simpson voice, when they mispronounce "nuclear".

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  21. janie2:49 PM

    You say tomAto I say tomato
    You say potAto I say spud:)

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  22. Elin11:46 PM

    Hey, I recognize this drawing. You know I'm with you on this stuff. I frequently yell "nuke lee er" at the television when W mispronounces it. It gets my goat, so to speak.

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  23. atomicvelvetsigh7:22 AM

    lol! with the nature of my job i should be wary not to do such mistakes..

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  24. Sandy8:07 AM

    awe man, you made me say all those words over n over now! ha, love it, good one!

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  25. Brine Blank11:34 PM

    Thankfully I only stretch out my I's...part of the hillbilly in me...on a related note...did I just read your name in the June edition of HOW magazine??? I'll have to call you the infamous willie from now on...

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  26. thefridayfrog6:32 AM

    ahahahahahhahah!!!! perfectly observed. and this feels like it could be a "sassier schollhouse rock" piece. "))

    i still say "pahsketti." instead of, well, "pasta." sad...so sad.

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  27. athletico1:48 PM

    Crackin' font and speechy bubbles.

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  28. Gai5:43 PM

    great message. like your colours

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  29. Amy Zaleski3:24 PM

    Don't forget Marge Simpson's famous "Foilage!"

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Thanks for stopping by! :-)

Willie

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