I love Michelle, I really do.  I think she could be the greatest First Lady since Jackie O.

However.  She does one thing that undermines her obvious intelligence.  It’s grating on me.

There’s this mispronunciation common to people from New York and Chicago.  It involves words which begin with the S T R consonant combination.  Words like “strength”, “street” and “straight.”

The mistake is that people mysteriously change the S sound to an SH sound. 

So “strength” becomes “shtrength.”  “Street” becomes “shtreet.” 

“Shtraight.”

“Shtream.”

I don’t know why people do this.  But Michelle is a very smart lady and she should know better.  Someone who is close to her needs to sit her down and have her work on this. 

For the good of the nation.

That is all.