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Sarah makes 'shocking' discovery about her childhood

By Sarah Van Der Kley
Hawkes Bay Today·
12 Apr, 2017 01:00 AM2 mins to read

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Sarah van der Kley, from Classic Hits

Sarah van der Kley, from Classic Hits

We recently made a discovery on the show that shocked me and left me feeling like my childhood was a lie.

One of my favourite authors from my youth was Roald Dahl who developed a magical world I could delve into every day, one filled with awful aunts and giant men who eat snozzcumbers.

His stories are great but his name is one I have always had difficulty pronouncing. I feel like I've only just mastered the correct pronunciation and have now discovered we've all been saying it wrong.

According to a programme that the man himself hosted in the 1960s, his name is not pronounced Rolled but rather Roo-al.

I think I'll just call him Mr Dahl and be done with it. It got us talking on the show about things you have been saying wrong, like song lyrics.

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Everyone's been caught out singing the wrong words at one point, like one listener who thought Fleetwood Mac's "You can go your own way" was "You can grow your own weed". Another thought "I've got the moves like Jagger" was "I wanna remove my jacket".

One texter's friend was convinced the words to Snoopy's Christmas went "When Snoopy went out, in search of his bone". Which actually makes perfect sense considering Snoopy is a dog.

And then there was the lady whose daughter thought The Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive" was "Steak and Knife". It's not just song lyrics that confuse us.

A friend of mine sent a text to someone recently in which she admitted she is very superficial. She claims she meant to say superstitious but I've seen how long she spends in front of the mirror so who knows? When I was younger, I watched a cartoon about someone giving a man mouth to mouth in which they must have mentioned artificial respiration.

I liked to write stories and pretend I was smarter than I am by using what I considered to be big words. And so, thinking I was clever, I wrote a story about a drowning man who was given artificial insemination, much to my parents and teacher's delight. In the story, the man survived after this medical intervention. No word on the baby though.

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*Don't miss Adam Green and Sarah Van Der Kley on The Hits Hawke's Bay from 6am to 9am Monday to Friday.

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