Sat. 26.09.09
Mart: What's that on the wall above you? It's an insect.
Me: What is it?
Mart: It's a praying mantis.
Me: Preying mantis? What does it prey on?
Mart (ponders for a while): Ants?
Me: Ok
After a few seconds...
Mart: Erm, you do know that it's prAying mantis and not prEying mantis, right?
No pun intended. I felt outright silly.
I have no idea why i had instinctively thought that it was "prEying mantis".
Blame it on my phonetical skills?
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