Getting the joke 30 years later - just me?

[HappySquid]

I have just realised that Shaun the Sheep's name is a play on words (Shaun/shorn). Feeling rather sheepish.

Has anyone else come across a joke that only sunk in many years later or is it just me?!

Sauce and cross rhyme for me and I'm not American

And Otto and auto are the same

👋 Twiglets look like........ twigs!
It took me years to realise this

@Davros and nowadays they are as tasty as twigs sadly 🤢

It on my accent

One has an r in it

I know. It looked from the first post that it was something to do with the name peperami and I didn't get that. Someone later said peper-AMI like animal except that doesn't work 😆

What do you say? Saurce?

I'm Scottish and sauce rhymes with boss, so yes I say pass the soss.

There is no R in sauce 😉

@Zonder the "Ami" suggestion chooses over my head I don't understand that reply 😶

@Hugformydad Hahahaaaa....ME!! I confess, poor piggy! I really thought he went shopping

I once went round to a friends house with my then boyfriend. She appeared at the door with rubber gloves on (obviously doing housework) and said ‘I’m the epitome of Thomas Disserty’. I spent years wondering who Thomas was but too embarrassed to ask…

One day some 20 odd years later I realised she had said ‘I’m the epitome of domesticity’

Well this.

Apparently no-one rhymes lawn and gone. So dismissive and insular

I do. Lawn and gone rhyme. Shaun and shorn dont. That's my accent which is just as valid as someone one else's.

I can understand how people's accents pronounce words differently though. it's not hard

I love these threads. Someone always learns what a rhotic accent is for the first time and someone always learns that when people add an "r" into a word they don't actually pronounced it. Bawth not barrrrth.

These rhyme for me:

Cross, sauce, loss, moss, boss, floss

Source, course, force, hoarse

Horse, Norse, Morse

So you think every letter should be pronounced or it’s incorrect? That’s not how English works, in any accent!

No, there are some silent letters in words in English, e.g. the "c" in science or the "p" in psychology.

Not pronouncing/dropping a "t" or an "r" in a particular accent is not the same as having a silent letter.

Lawn, gone, fawn, dawn, yawn, spawn

WTA!

Errr .... another one fessing up here ... I did not know ... SHAUN THE SHEEP and THE COUNT ... mind blown!

Thank you for making me chuckle this morning!

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In my accent sauce rhymes with horse but I don't pronounce the r in horse.

It isn't. It's Master Mates.

I recently went to the Tina Turner musical.
I just realised the meaning of Private Dancer. All these years I just thought it was a another great song.

I cannot handle piggy went to market though that is just too, too much ...

Again, thank you MN!

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Jesus. These threads are so stupid. They start off as a bit of fun and then turn into a load of crap about how some people pronounce words correctly and others are wrong.

People from different parts of the country/world pronounce English words in different ways.

No one has the monopoly on pronunciation. The faux amazement that other people pronounce words in a different way is so ridiculous.

@WhatHoJeeves
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Oh wow! I never knew. Thanks for this.

Also, it's not especially well-known that the song was actually written by Mark Knopfler (of Dire Straits).

Prostitute?

To be fair, it probably doesn't bother them what people think, they made a mint from it.

But surely the words are 'I'm a Private Dancer, a dancer for money' that's a big clue.

I'm your private dancer
A dancer for money
I'll do what you want me to do
I'm your private dancer
A dancer for money
And any old music will do

She wasn't necessarily a prostitute though, there used to be Taxi Dancers who men could pay for a dance. I daresay there would often have been 'extras'.
From wiki:
A taxi dancer is a paid dance partner in a ballroom dance. Taxi dancers work (sometimes for money but not always) on a dance-by-dance basis. When taxi dancing first appeared in taxi-dance halls during the early 20th century in the United States, male patrons typically bought dance tickets for a small sum each.[1][2][3] When a patron presented a ticket to a chosen taxi dancer, she danced with him for the length of a song. She earned a commission on every dance ticket she received. Though taxi dancing has for the most part disappeared in the United States, it is still practiced in some other countries.

I think it was a way for women to make money in the Depression era in America.