Not sure what to title this

The issue isn't that I am lazy, rather it's a similar four-letter word that starts with b, ends with the same letter y, and for all you language geeks, shares the same voiced dental fricative when expressed in speech, but in writing the graph is a the voiceless one. Ooh, the mystery and excitement of linguistics! NOW READ THE CORRECTION AT THE END OF THIS POST.

I'll get some pics up of the wedding and related items while it is still somewhat relevant, even though it probably isn't anymore, soon. By soon I mean this next week. This is an improvement in my use of the term 'soon'. Usually it's anywhere from 1 - 6 months. I'm slowly working on making the soon = 'less than a week' coorespondence real.

I'd talk politics but I still have nothing to say. Sadly, the only thing I've done in that direction was rank the candidates according to their looks. Some distracting link I pressed while checking my Yahoo mail. I'm so behind on paperwork, but yet I couldn't resist. But just FYI, my top 3 were 1 Gen. Clark, 2 Mitt, and 3 Edwards. Bottom 3 were Dodd, Richardson, and Fred Thompson. Wonderful, eh? Who needs to be informed when you can just go by looks. At least that takes Clinton out of the running.

So in the meantime, here are some more niece pics. I am taking a break from my eldest brother's kids since there are so many and moving to my other older brother's (also, my number 2 bro SIL rarely sends me current ones, so I actually have some now that are relatively current rather than newborn ones of Aby). The young one is year and a half year old Abygail, "Aby". The blondie is 6 year old, uber gregarious, Alaura. Do all my 8 nieces and nephews have thier names start will either an A, C, or L? Yes. I'm going to have a kid just to break it up.



Left: Aby watching from the sides.


Right: The Girls














****CORRECTION: One must wonder if English is my native language and if I really did teach a writing course when they are subjected to the ill-formed nature of my prose. I have no idea what I was "on" when I wrote the following:

The issue isn't that I am lazy, rather it's a similar four-letter word that starts with b, ends with the same letter y, and for all you language geeks, shares the same voiced dental fricative when expressed in speech, but in writing the graph is a the voiceless one.

It should read:

The issue now isn't that I'm lazy, rather it's a similar sounding four-letter word. This newer word to describe me starts with a b; ends with the same letter as the old word, y; and, for all you language geeks, when spoken, the third sound in both terms share the same voiced dental fricative. However in the new word's written form, the graph is the voiceless one.

Sounds just as geeky but at least it makes better sense, and now I can relax.