The Game of Meanings.docVIP

The Game of Meanings 　　‘The cabin crew will be circulating in a few minutes to serve drinks and snakes. We only ask that you keep your seatbelts fastened and observe the ‘No Smoking’ sign.” With a few nervous titters heard among passengers， I wondered if the person behind the voice actually knew what some of us found so amusing. A common error had occurred when the word “snakes” had been used instead of s-n-a-c-k-s. Recently a Chinese friend， who graduated as an English major， laughed when recounting how she invariably orders“Spirit” instead of S-p-r-i-t-e. Oral English faux pas like these are