The Heartbreak Kid: Blog

Hopefully all of the mistakes and typos in the original posting have now been amended and the story has been submitted for reposting.

Yes, I've read through it once since it's been posted and acknowledge the fact that there are things that need to be corrected...

Coitus, Coital

Even the usually punctilious Sheldon Cooper and his Big Bang chums can be heard to pronounce it 'coy-tus', whereas if you visit the Oxford Dictionary Online website and click on the speech icon, a male British voice will state that it is 'co-it-us'. Likewise, the pronunciation of the word 'co-it-al'/'coy-tul'

There is a third variation, although less popular I think: 'coition'. Now by applying the same precept, 'co-ish-ion' makes sense, whereas 'coy-shun' just sounds wrong!

Unlike 'aluminium' and 'aluminum', which are technically both correct in one sense, although different in another, and 'Tom-ay-to' and 'Tom-ah-to' depending on which side of the Atlantic Ocean that you happen to be on; 'po-tay-to' and 'po-tar-to' have only ever existed in the mind of George and Ira Gershwin.

Another example which appears to be in quite common usage, is the word 'buoy' which Brits and I believe Aussies pronounce 'boy', whereas Americans say 'boo-ee'. Since this is a nautical term and shares a root with 'buoyant' and 'buoyancy', I will let you make your own mind up which is correct.

I have just read yet another story where a female character is said to have either A, B, C, DD, etc., breasts-and, yes, I admit it, I've done it myself in my own stories! But just to clear up this common misconception, breasts do not come in these sizes; the cups of the bras that their owners wear do, however.

Cup sizes are a relative term which express the relationship between the volume of the breast tissue that a person has-which incidentally can and often does differ in each breast-and the garment that they need to contain said tissue correctly and comfortably. This sizing can vary between a bra's manufacturer and even its country of origin, for example. If any male gets the opportunity to do so, ask a female that you know well enough how easy or difficult it is to find a bra that does its job properly.

Of course a person can look at a woman and make an estimation of her vital statistics, including the size of their breasts, but rarely will this be as either as accurate or as clear cut as most fictional accounts suggest.

It was pointed out to me that there was a posting problem with this story so it has been reworked slightly and reposted.