ONO MA WHAT???

It's ONOMATOPOEIA!!
No it's not a new lyric for The Lion King. It's a word that my Master Teacher presented me with right before class, asking me to teach it to the students. My first hurdle? I couldn't pronounce it! I kept fumbling over the pronunciation and eventually had to ask my students to help me. While they saw it as one big joke, I thought how terrible is it that the word I am to teach, I can't even pronounce!
The lesson continued just fine... I at least knew the definition: words that mimic the sounds they name. I was also able to provide some examples: meow, woof, shhhh, tick-tock, crunch (if you were eating a bag of chips), or clank (silverware hitting the plate).
I pointed out that even teachers can learn something new everyday!