Strolling at East Coast Park one Saturday afternoon, Intuition nudged me and pointed at a signboard...
He: Look at the signboard!
Me: What about it?
He: Look carefully! It says "Barbecue"!
Me: ... so?
He: Don't you see anything wrong?? b.a.r.b.e.SEEEEEEE.u.e???
Me: *stifling a grin* that's not wrong what!
He: Aiyo your spelling is going down the drain. It's spelt b.a.r.b.e.KEEEEW.u.e!!
Me: *bimbotic look* then that would be pronounced as BarBECK! See, how do you pronounce boutique? BootiKEW?? NO! It's pronounced Boo-Teek! How about "tongue"? Not "tong-ew", right??
He: *clasps his hands over my head and shakes it* AHHHH!!! You're getting sillier and sillier! I don't want to talk to you anymore!
Actually, I was just having him on. I also thought that the signboard had a spelling error (horrors, our National Parks Board can't spell!) but wanted to have fun with the inconsistencies of the Ingrish Language. Until I checked the spelling of BBQ for this post and saw that BOTH spelling were accepted; in fact, "barbecue" was more common than "barbeque", which was the way I've been spelling it all my life.
So here's Ingrish Lesson 101 for you: Barbec/que, as carefully researched by QuirkieKai.
13 October 2007
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2 comments:
dear quirkz... r u serious in spelling BBQ as "barbeque"? it nvr occurred to me it ever was spelt tt way leh... haha... ;P CJ
dear CJ
are u aka april*? ;)
yah maybe i shd start a poll:
How do you spell BBQ?
a. Barbeque.
b. Barbecue.
apparently i'm not the only one who spells it that way!!
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