Wednesday, November 03, 2021

English Pronunciation



Ricky Ricardo was a breakthrough character in that he was an immigrant in a TV landscape that was overwhelmingly white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant. And his first language was Spanish. In this classic scene from I Love Lucy, we get a little lesson in the ridiculous ways we spell and pronounce English words, which sometimes have nothing to do with each other.  


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