I commute to work every day with an absolutely hilarious friend. When you spend a great deal of time in the car with someone, you get to know them fairly well and also have some interesting conversations. Today, this song came on the radio:
I began making the bull whip sound earnestly, as it is my favorite part of the song. Somehow or another, my friend and I got into a deep conversation about how you would describe this whip sound. Specifically, how would you spell it?
Before you know it, my friend and I are making the whip sound over, and over, and over. We are really analyzing the sound and trying to put letters to go with it. Of course, every time we make the sound, we have to make the whipping motion with our hands! I'm sure we looked VERY odd, sitting in traffic, whipping the air repeatedly in the car. We were also dying of laughter.
To better clarify the sound, I turned the volume WAY up so we could study the sound in detail. Here we are, sitting in my old lady car, music BLASTING, whipping the air with a frenzy.
My friend suggested that you spell the whipping sound like this:
Witchchchch-chhch
My argument was that sounded like a whip that had a stutter, or a whip that is cold. Besides, you'd need the hyphen earlier in the word! But hey, try spelling her suggestion outloud to yourself and listen to how silly it sounds!
I don't know if it's
whi-tch
whtch
witch
Or, as Chandler Bing says it...
Don't you wish you carpooled with us to hear our stimulating conversations?!
It's more of a whee-tsshhhh and say it like you are speaking Yiddish - with the whee rumbling in the back of the throat and a very forceful TSSHHHH.
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