Okay, I realize that this is a small thing, however, it’s always the small things that bug me. Have you ever heard anyone pronounce the word ‘puberty,’ as ‘pooberty?’

What’s with that? Pooberty just doesn’t sound right, Lord knows it doesn’t look right…and personally, I wonder where they got it from. The only idea I can come up with is that they got from someone else who goes around saying pooberty. “The average male of twelve years is entering pooberty…” I know what that sounds like. But I neither know or think I want to know what it might mean. Another thing that really bugs me are the folks, who, for some reason known but to them, have decided that some words beginning with the letter w, really begin with the letter h. “Hwat you say?” “Hwhen I know hwhere to put it, then I’ll know hwhy.” And to make matters worse, some of these people actually feel the need to purse their lips together and blow the h sound out as if warming up for a tuba concert. No matter how closely you inspect the words why, when, who, where and what…there simply IS no h in front of the w. It isn’t hidden, it isn’t a silent letter, an invisible letter…it isn’t a letter at all because IT ISN’T THERE! Hwow, hwell, I guess I better sign off now…I have had my say, and, this is starting to sound a little prepoobescent.