Enunciation
She plays this little game in her head. It revolves around mispronouncing syllables within words deliberately. For example, “agape” would become “aja-pey” (after all, if the “g” in “agile” can sound like a “j”...); “”nutrition” would turn into “nut”(pronounced how the hard-shelled seed is pronounced)-try-shun.” There was a reason why she invented this game. It can be traced back to her tryst with the printed letters. It’s incredible how much of her thoughts, principles, ideologies have sprung from or been inspired from the books she read, much more than from the people she met or the experiences she garnered. Therefore, it’s reasonable to construe that her encounter with a lot of words had been through the printed alphabets. The first time she came across the word “ricochet”, she marvelled at the wondrous way the syllables seemed to arrange themselves to convey the exact meaning. She felt an odd respect for whoever coined the word. It was perfect and no other word would come clos...