"I think you'll like working here, Vinny Boy!" It had taken him five minutes to go from Vincent to Vinny Boy and, in the following months, when they played table tennis during lunch break, Roy would tell the men, "I've got to beat Vinny Boy for once!" And they would titter and repeat "Vinny Boy".
"The confusion of yur-A-nus began when some high school teachers were afraid that students would titter at the correct pronunciation". These teachers wanted to avoid the sound of the first two syllables, and caused a pronunciation in which the last two syllables were stressed.
"What did you think I'd wear?" he asked amid the titters.
Checking my notebook after the first two episodes, I noticed that among the few lines of dialogue I'd bothered to write down was this father-son exchange: "Are you on facial book?" "No, Dad, I'm tittering".
I tittered and said, "I was just joking.
I swear to God, at 2 40 I tittered like a schoolgirl.
By now I was tittering helplessly and in unison with the two teenage guys on my right.
She had never seen a cow – my school friends and I tittered; what an idiot.
I tittered and at the same time, for reasons unclear to me, felt an overwhelming tenderness for this man.
Or, as he is called in this Californian iteration, Emmett Carver, a name with such swagger I cannot help tittering.
Tom and I tittered; on our own first trip to Europe, we had done the same thing, ending up with enough foreign paper to fill an entire album.
