Aaaaar! 07/11/2016

 I was a little dumpling who could not pronounce R and L for a long time and it was not for the want of trying. I would sit for hours repeating L L L when all I wanted to say was R R R. When I could talk I was taught nursery rhymes. I learnt quickly and would repeat them with innocence only a child has to any-one who would ask just so that they could hear me mispronounce the letter R ! There was a little rhyme about an old man who had a little piglet as small as a chick and one day he went out into the yard and the piglet had grown overnight to be the size of an elephant.The rhyme had a lot of L in it and I was asked to recite it and did so readily, with my tongue acquiring a life of its own with each L coming a little out of my mouth.My aunt [my mother's sister] would take me mushroom picking, tying me with a scarf to her back,she and her friends would teach me new rhymes and would ask me to recite those I knew already,the one about the little piglet being firm favourite just so they could have a little chuckle over my L.