Liz is a terrific poet and she's doing a lot for poets and poetry in Grey-Bruce. This cartoon isn't making fun of her in any harsh way. First of all, it's meant to recognize her honour of being named our poet laureate for another year, and secondly it's just poking fun at how Americans tend to say, "huh" and Canadians say "eh". Of course Liz's poetry is much better than this . That's because I wrote this one. The key to this cartoon is the pronunciation of "laureate". According to my dictionary, it can be be said two different ways. Americans probably tend to say lor-eee- et 'cause they like to simple it down. The other thing is Liz was originally an American, so her first instinct might be to write "duh" but then it wouldn't rhyme. Anyway it's really great to have Liz calling this area "home" for the past number of years. Eh?
