The other day I was painting my mom's toenails, and I started thinking about what a funny word "fuschia" is. It's pronounced "few-shya," like "few" as in "my wrestling coach had a few too many and, well..." and "shya" as in Wayne from Wayne's World saying "shya, right." But the spelling makes me think it should be pronounced "fuss-chia," like "fuss" as in "don't make a fuss, you don't want Coach to lose his job" and "chia" as in "ch-ch-ch-chia, the pottery that grows."

The interesting thing is that I was painting my mom's toenails blue at the time. But the point stands.