[Pangloss62]

As I was driving through Alabama last week, there was a funny commercial for an artist who, as the voice talent declared, painted beautiful "murials" for churches and sanctuaries. That's right, mur-i-als. Now, I would forgive that usage if it were just a random rural Southerner speaking informally, but this was a woman reading ad copy that had to go through at least some review before it was broadcast. In the ad, a women asserted several times how beautiful were the artist's "murials" and how the same "murials" would make any room look bigger and how the "murials" could depict famous events from the bible etc. I could not help thinking of the artist struggling to paint those small cigars of the same pronunciation. "Wow! That cigar is so beautiful it would be a shame to smoke it. How long have you been painting those Muriels?"