Because, of course, THAT is what this blog is actually about. Well, supposed to be. When I am not talking about myself, my baby, my family, my husband, international politics, or, er... food.
So today I went to the physiotherapist, which is actually always a lot of fun. It's more massage-like than the physio I've had back home, and the two physio's I go to both speak a smattering of English and Portuguese so it's kind of like a mini Portuguese lesson for me and mini English lesson for them.
They were telling me about places to buy baby things here in Rio, and we got talking about bedding. Specifically, sheets.
One of them knew what sheets were but the other thought we'd somehow got onto the topic of diapers. Why? Well in the cute little Portuguese accent, sheet, and sh*t pretty much sound the same! (Kind of like gringoes saying coco and coco...)
So then we got into this pronunciation demo where I tried to show them how to pronounce the difference, about 10 times, so then they each repeated me about 15 times, so you can really see how a bystander walking in might have thought someone really sh*t the bed...
Sheet! Sh*t! Sheet! SH#t!
It was quite amusing...
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