Meck-an-ick

Words. We all use them. Some of us actually use them well. Some of us give them their own special tweak.

I don't know why he said it this way. Maybe it was disdain for having to resort to one rather than fix a problem himself. Or maybe it was an ongoing little joke. Perhaps he didn't even realize he was doing it. I'm open to suggestion.

Me Grandpa Joe didn't say 'mechanic'. He said, meck-an-ick. "We better send it to a meckanick," he might opine when surrendering a car to a higher power. 

I think it was only that concessions to reality rattled him enough that Joe had to alter that reality just a bit. So he said meckanick. It eased his pain.