Banana
7th of December, 2007
Eating several bananas today has left me with a question. Why do only Americans think the second 'a' in the word 'banana' should sound any different to the first or the last?
Of course me actually asking it leads to yet more questions about the effect they have on the brain, but that sort of talk is far too high-brow for me, after the mountain of paperwork I've just shoveled through.
It's now 3:40am. Monkey Squirrel want banana.
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[3rd person] Maxpower is flattered, so he will respond with a serious but maxpowerized approach [/3rd person]
Fun’ish fact: The word banana was originally from a chimp laden place of Senegal. It came from their Wolof word banaana.
I guess to Americans, the word needed a bit more OOMPH.
Perhaps they just started saying it to piss off England, which I guess didn’t take much. My favourite theory is they originally left England because they were tired of the alu-min-um ad-ver-tise-ments that all used Feist’s 1234.