Right there with ya, the release of the TV show and never hearing adults pronounce alternate spellings as a kid cemented it in my mind. Looking at artwork and

Right there with ya, the release of the TV show and never hearing adults pronounce alternate spellings as a kid cemented it in my mind. Looking at artwork and pictures of it, you'll notice the lowercase 'a' is used in the titles of the book, and this looks a lot like an 'e' in cursive, which furthered the confusion. I was reading about it and caught a picture of a poster for the TV show on another website, and realized that when the words were written in title case or UPPER CASE, then all of a sudden the 'A' looked right and the 'E' looked wrong! So my visual memory of the 'A' is intact, but only in the uppercase form, where the visual difference is stark. In the lower-case cursive form (used on so many of the book titles from the time period I had them), it's so easy to see it as an 'E' when that's the pronounciation that everyone tended to use. I mean do you know anyone with a last name ending in -stain vs. -stein or -stine? Not me.