
What basic information question has been misunderstood in this picture? Answer = "What's your address?". Surprisingly, for many speakers, these two sentences are perfectly identical in sound. The S in "what's" and the Y in "your" combine to make an SH sound. This in turn joins the T in "What" to create the CH sound. That makes "Watch". The "Your" minus that first Y sound becomes "or". And finally, the first unstressed A in "address" is reinterpreted as the indefinite article.
You can only go halfway into the darkest forest, then you are coming out the other side
(China)
From As they say in Zanzibar by David Crystal
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