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I Love Lucy: English Pronunciation

This is one of my favorite episodes of I Love Lucy.  Since this Thursday's Grace Talk Soup is on the cultural differences in communication, I thought it'd be fun to post this segment of I Love Lucy where Lucy is trying to convince Ricky that his Cuban accent doesn't afford him the ability to speak "Correct English".  I especially love the part where he can't figure out how to pronounce the different English words that all end in "ough". English is a funny language and even Americans have a "tough" time of it!  Or is that a "too" time of it?  LOL Do you have a funny cultural communication story you'd like to share?  Come on the show on Thursday...

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