5PM That's a Wrap

Worker #1: How do you spell "vulnerable"? V-u-n-e-r-a-b-l-e?
Worker #2: No, it has an "l" in it. V-u-l...
Worker #1: Pfff, no. It's v-u-n-e-r-a-b-l-e.
Worker #2: It has an "l" in it. V-u-l-n-e-r-a-b-l-e.

Worker #1 gets the dictionary and struggles to find it under v-u-n.

Worker #1: Oh...How peculiar! Hang on.
Worker #2: V-u-l-n-e-r-a-b-l-e. Would you like me to give you the Latin root and related words? Vulnerare...vulnus...
Worker #1: Well, I never! It has an "l" in it! Well, well. You don't pronounce it like that, though. What's the "l" for?
Worker #2: ...It's for making it a real word.

200 Green Lanes
Palmers Green, London
UK


Overheard by: Peachey