When I drove past the nearby home store mall today and saw the words,
SUPA CENTA
plastered on the side of the building I did a double take. Supa what?
Is that a joke? Or maybe “supa centa” happens to be another language? Because it surely couldn’t mean SupER CentER could it? Oh yes. Oh yes it could do.
Wait … could do what? That doesn’t make sense. It could do? Oh right. Yep yep. It could do. Supa Centa could mean SupER CentER. And it was plastered all over the building and parking lots. It could do.
AGH!!!! I’m going crazy!!!
Please, please put a little more Purel Hand Sanitizer on the humongous scrape on my collarbone. It didn’t kill me last time … And maybe if we’re lucky my eyes will well up with tears again from the 11 point sting on the pain scale of 1 to 10. I just LUV putting straight rubbing alcohol on open wounds. It doesn’t hurt AT ALL. Nope. Not at all.
But it may do.
Right. The Please kill me NOW searing pain from the This will only hurt a LITTLE alcohol dab on an open wound may at least distract me from the miserable grammar headache that is POUNDING in my uptight brain. Who in the world names their mall the “Supa Centa?” Who does that? An “Oz”zie apparently.
And may do? Could do?
NO NO NO NO NO NO!
Did you know the Australian Cockroach (or Periplaneta australasiae) has wings? Oh yes it do. Not may do. Not could do. No. It DO!!!
[deep sigh, shake my head, and self talk, "It's ok Daisy. It's only grammar. And yes Supa Centa is spelled with "a"s insted of "er"s so you have to pronounce it like an Australian ... And ok maybe you hear a lot of Australians answer your questions with "may do" and "could do" ... " deep breath, "But hey - not ALL Australians have bad grammar (in fact most are great) and at least their cockroaches have wings..."]