SEUSS

Theodor Geisel’s pen name is regularly pronounced /ˈsjuːs/ SEWSS,
an anglicized pronunciation INCONSISTENT with his German surname.
He himself noted that it rhymed with “voice” (his own pronunciation being /ˈsɔɪs/ SOYSS) and Alexander Liang (his collaborator on the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern) wrote of him:

“You’re wrong as the deuce
And you shouldn’t rejoice
If you’re calling him Seuss.
He pronounces it Soice.”

Verbatim
Source: from WIKIPEDIA, the free encyclopedia.

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Whether pronounced as SEWSS or SOICE “The Cat In The Hat ” was the only book of Dr. Seuss that I have ever read as a child.

I did not even own it, our grade school use to have this mini library which had many of Dr. Seuss’ books.

Back then I never thought of his books as interesting but well , strange , maybe.

And so when my son Rafa’s books began accumulating and had Dr. Seuss as author, I tried to open my mind:

And I soon had my favorites too:

I get tickled pink with this story of a boy named Gerald Mcloy who did not speak words , he just made sounds:

I laugh when I read of the ordeal of this person being forced to eat something strange which were green eggs and ham:

I smile when I read about the boy who woke up one day, a Wednesday and he saw that things were not in their right places, like the shoe on a wall:

And I find joy in reading to my son what I may call the silliest book I have ever encountered yet has been one of our favorite bedtime reads.

People on a speck of dust was the incredible theme of this movie that my son and I watched on DVD:

And when my son’s school asked their students to watch the musicale entitled:

I loved every minute of it.

And who would not ?

It was the talented artists of Repertory Philippines including Oliver Usison, Edward Briones, Liesel Batucan, Bituin Escalante and Pinky Marquez who gave life to the characters created by Dr. Seuss.

And my favorite song from this play would truly be,

” A Person’s A Person No Matter How Small. ”

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