A set of One Big Happy strips in which little Ruthie confronts the language: a spectacular mondegreen, some other misunderstandings based on phonological similarity (with more familiar words replacing unusual ones), and some troubles with idiomatic usages. The mondegreen: (#1) Other misunderstandings based on phonological similarity: (#2) (#3) A simple idiom misfire, involving an idiomatic … Continue reading Ruthie v. English