See those wee lollipops that your customers buy to stick in the gubs of their greeting weans, thus ceasing the greeting? It turns out everyone’s been pronouncing their name wrong.
So says online foreign language tutor Preply.
A provider of one-to-one virtual coaching, Preply should know. It has a whopping 10,056 Spanish teachers at its disposal, as well as 17 further tongues catered for by a multi-national raft of cunning linguists.
Anyway, stepping off the slippery slope of smut for a second, if you’re saying ‘Chuh-pa Chups’ you’re saying it wrong.
And here’s why. Actually, let’s not bother. It’s all to do with phonetics and verb forms and Spanish and stuff. Suffice to say, you should be saying ‘Choo-pa Choops’.
You’re welcome. Of course, the only problem is that no-one outside of the Iberian Peninsula will have any idea what you’re on about.
Under The Counter couldn’t give el toss. Unlike 70s TV detective, Kojak, he is not about to forsake the fags and take to lolly-sooking any time soon.
When it comes to a wee treat, he prefers a bag of hollow, cylindrical-shaped potato-based snacks. Or ‘Huh-la Hups’ as he now calls them.
