Mira, Mir on the Wall

As an unexpected follow-up to the quiz about pronunciation, a lunch table conversation ground to a halt when neither Froggy nor I understood Miss Kitty. She said something about a "mira".

For those of you who don't know Spanish, mira is a conjugated form of the verb "to look", as in s/he looks or you (formal) look.

Honestly, that's what I thought she was saying. After repeating herself fruitlessly, she said "looking glass".

"Oh!" Froggy said, "Mir".

Mir? The Russian space station?

It's very interesting that two people born and raised within scant miles of each other in small towns north of The Noog can mispronounce the same word two different ways.

In the meantime, I'm imagining an astronomy buff in one of the many Spanish speaking countries with a poster of Soviet satellites adorning his/her room.