Egg #59: Eggs, Holes, Bones

In his novel, "Await Your Rely," Dan Chaon writes this passage about a character who has lost a hand and is living in a country where he must learn to speak Spanish:

     The keen sense of loss had faded, and these days he found that he stumbled less and less over that absence. He could dress and even tie his shoes without much trouble. He could make toast and coffee, crack an egg into a skillet, all one-handed, and some days he wouldn't even bother to wear his prosthesis.

    "Eggs" was one of the words that he sometimes stumbled over.

    Huevos? Huecos? Huesos? Eggs, holes, bones.

Write a passage in which a character stumbles over the word 'egg' with other words that sound similar. Use the example of the Spanish, or another language, if you wish. You can even make up a language. The idea is to play with the language a bit and to create parallels that evoke the emotions the character is experiencing.