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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 148<br />
| date = August 25, 2006<br />
| title = Mispronouncing<br />
| image = mispronouncing.png<br />
| titletext = My pal Emad does this all the time. 'Hey man, which way to the airpart?'<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This is the sixth comic in the [[My Hobby]] series. [[Cueball]] is deliberately mispronouncing words while talking. It's just his hobby. Hobbies in the ''My Hobby'' series are generally annoying or weird, but with an element of cleverness. Here, Cueball persists in mispronouncing his words despite the second character's attempt to correct him.<br />
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In the title text, [[Randall]] explains that he got the idea for this comic from one of his friends.<br />
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Interestingly, when Randall started the xkcd blog in October 2006, 6 weeks after the publication of this comic, he named it "[[Blag]]," and he has used that name in several other comics, such as [[181: Interblag]] and [[239: Blagofaire]].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Caption at top of panel:]<br />
:My hobby:<br />
:Mispronouncing words<br />
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:[Cueball and a friend are talking:]<br />
:Cueball: Yeah, did you see what he said on his wobsite?<br />
:Friend: ...his what?<br />
:Cueball: Wobsite.<br />
:Friend: ... I think you mean "website."<br />
:Cueball: Why don't you write about it in your blag?<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
Today if you visit https://www.blag.xkcd.com, you get redirected to blog.xkcd.com, but the title is still "xkcd - The blag of the webcomic".<br />
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