Slow on the Uptake?

In a long-winded column about nothing I posted yesterday, there was this little aside:

Years ago, my Grandfather Green and I were making fun of how “pneumonia” is spelled. He said, “The P is silent, as in ‘bath.'”

Hardly anyone asked how my puppy is, or if Adam and I got all the work done on the yard. But you can bet there was a bunch of email asking to explain the damn pun. Let’s sound it out.

“The pee is silent, as in bath.”

Get it now?