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Monday, November 10, 2008

"Peter Bread"

Charlie writes:

The Ghanaians speak an English closer to British than American. A prominent feature for me coming from New Jersey is that the letter 'R' is rarely pronounced. Normally this is not a problem once you get used to it, but we found an interesting mis-transcription of our favorite Lebanese flatbread at the store this week. As you can see from the scan, what we would call "Pita Bread" is marketed here in Ghana as "Peter Bread!" which sounds the same to Ghanaian ears.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You are so right on this. Until I said it out loud, Peter and Pita, I never realized how they would sound exactly the same. Jolly Good Show Jackson!