Once in a while it's all about a girl in Boston

[sovay]

For the eleventh anniversary of Kittening Day, Hestia was made much of with ham and petting and tomorrow when the day is less frenetic, there will be salmon. Her brother is celebrated in memory, my flower-clawed movie cat.



I will not be attending the reenactment because my plans for tomorrow all involve absolutely not getting out of bed until after noon, but it is true that despite it being the first naval battle of the American Revolution, I had never heard of the Battle of Chelsea Creek. Then again, apparently I have to find out from the internet that I transatlantically pronounce "penalize." An envelope full of lino-printed stickers arrived in the mail from asakiyume.

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[sovay]

I do too, I guess from penal colony or something like, that is colonialist from go and would only be said with the long e.

Penalty and penal have always been pronounced with different vowels as long as I've heard them. It had literally never occurred to me that the pronunciation of penalize could split the difference. The verb is built off the adjective, not the noun! It just tacks on the suffix! How is that supposed to change the pronunciation?

Hail, Hestia!

Always!