(Another example of what you miss if you don't read comment threads: Tim Blair put up a post that begins

A friend’s wife can’t pronounce “squirrel”. It comes out as “skirrel”. Just imagine going through life with that sort of handicap....

“Skirl” is more interesting than “squirrel” anyway. According to Webster’s it means (1) to utter or emit a shrill tone or (2) to play the bagpipes. Does your friend’s wife do either of these?

My squirrel plays the bagpipes;
   He keeps them in my car.
He plays those nasty bagpipes
   Wherever squirrels are.
Colt forty-five, meet bagpipes
   And blast them all to hell.
Though squirrel plays the bagpipes
   He does not play them well.

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