#that u in my phonetic spelling of my mispronunciation of pilchard is a schwa

[majorshatterandhare]

My brain always reads “Pilchard” as “Plick-urd” (because they don’t say it in the song; it took me far too long to realize the I and L are switched) so I looked it up and you really just say it exactly like it’s spelled.

Anyway, a pilchard is a fucking sardine! And apparently sardines are in the same family as herrings.

I can’t say the “I” adjective at the beginning of that song title, either. Ignominious. I just forget which letters are in it. It means “deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.”