Rhymes with vagina
you have no idea how many strange looks you can get when answering the question “so where are you flying to today?” from anyone outside of Canada.
i was even offered the advice that we “should really change the pronunciation to Reh-GEE-na or something.” i blame Latin and Queen Victoria. and maybe it’s worse with my accent. i don’t know.
but i’m really not from* a city named after female genitalia. honest.
ho! ho! home! again! so very thankful no one was killed in the runway accident at Denver International Airport on the weekend. by the time you read this, Brandon and i will be already en route to Denver (via Boulder) for my 140pm flight. please keep my travels and snowy connections in your thoughts today. i’ll be back in Regina (and en route to Moose Jaw) by 8pm tonight!
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*i use the word “from” ever so lightly these days. where am i from anyway? born in Saskatoon, but preferring to call Vancouver home for the 8 years pre-Nevis and having lived in a few cities in between. thankfully, home is always where my family is.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:57 am
I remember when we learned the provincial capitals in like grade 2 or 3, us kids would laugh at “Regina” but I’d think grown adults might not find it so funny?? Although no offence to Brandon, but I guess we are talking Americans here! If you ask me, Regina and Vagina may rhyme, but other than that they don’t sound that much alike…you know the whole R and V thing. Actually I just remembered watching a show about canadian english teachers in Thailand, and one girl was staying at a hostel and someone asked her where she was from…she said Regina and almost everyone in the place was on the floor laughing. Poor Regina :(
December 23rd, 2008 at 11:31 am
In his book Notes from a small island, Bill Bryson comments about some amusing town names in the UK such as Titsey, Shellow Bowells and the village of Wyre Piddle (there’s even a place there called Piddle in the Hole!).
Merry Christmas Sarah! I have your pressie here although I haven’t wrapped
myselfit yet. ;)December 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
When I was in Scotland this summer, up in the Orkneys there was a town called Twatt. No kidding – I had to take a photo as proof!
December 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I love that fur lined hood. You look like a eskimo. :-)
December 23rd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
jammie…i think we were meant to be. I am reading that very book you speak of! My uncle gave it to me last week, and I just started it.
Merry Christmas to you too!
December 23rd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
“…thankfully, home is always where my family is.”
And friends. Don’t forget friends. That makes Vancouver one of your many homes even if you never return here to live.
hugs to you, Maddy, and to Ruh-gy-na too.
:)
c
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Well, I am back home finally after the driving. Hope your flying is going well and can’t wait to come to vagina, I mean Regina, this Saturday : ) : P
December 24th, 2008 at 12:49 am
I bet you can’t BCWB, I bet you can’t….
December 24th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Glad you made it safely.
You look a little cold.
Jen, you and your family have a wonderful Christmas.
Have no fear Brandon will NOT forget his passport this time and will make all the flights.
Only three “sleeps” till he is there!
Joe
December 24th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I need a passport to get into Canada?!?!? : P : )
December 24th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Brandon, Jen needed one to get into a casino in Iowa didn’t she?!?:-)
Hate to say it but it doesn’t hurt to carry one outside the USA.
January 10th, 2009 at 3:18 am
My name is RE-GEE-NA, not vagina. I am sooo sick of it all! Frickin people need to be set straight. If you can’t manage RE-GEE-NA then call me Gina.