It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I can't pronounce it, I don't want to put it in my body. Everything to me now is organic, natural, right from the farm.
We should have an easier name to pronounce.
It was my dad's idea to change my name from Sahatciu to Ora. He said it would be easier to pronounce.
You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.
Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.