My dad’s family did the block-of-butter-for-corn, my mom’s the pat-of-butter, so I’ve grown up with both. But more importantly, the on-going argument of which was is superior. haha : )
I was baking cookies with a friend—quite a while ago, actually—and I got a wisk to stir the dry ingredients together before mixing them with the butter/sugar/eggs… she thought I was so weird for doing that, and let me know, and know, and know. When she left I had to go to my mom and get reassurance that I wasn’t crazy. That’s just how my family does it, and it works quite well!
Another: for the longest time I said women like wuh-men, not wih-men, like I guess it ‘really’ is said. Actually, I still say it like that in my head… I guess I do it for spelling? It was spelled like woman with an e instead of an a, so that’s how I said it.
I found out when I was in 8th grade, I think it was, that I was saying it “wrong”. Our teacher put up the word ghoti (I think that’s the right way to spell the riddle?) and asked how it sounds out as fish with other english phoenetics. The O to I was from the word women. I was all ‘oh…’