Today my groupmates and I were discussing the mnemonic for the branches of the facial nerve. And they mentioned the one the surgeon mentioned yesterday during the parotidectomy yesterday.
Branches of Facial Nerve are: Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular and Cervical.
And they were saying something like: "Three Zheppers Bit My Cat..."
And I asked: "What are zheppers?" My mind was thinking of something vaguely like zippers. *inserts face with a question mark above it*
And guess what it was? You won't believe it. Zebras!!!
Who the hell pronounce zebras not like Zeee-bras but Zhe-pers??
Go figure! hahaha. Am still trying to figure out the aussie tongue :P
2 comments:
It's the difference between pronouncing 'Z' as either 'zed' as UK or 'zee' as US. some of the words starting with 'Z' are pronounced with that in mind.
http://forvo.com/word/zebra/
you can hear the other Z words there.
haha really? but then why wud they pronounce B like P wo..
just need more time to learn the aussie tongue~ :P
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