English becomes a foreign language
Franks writes: "Boys I have taught have all orally used these words in the last year in class in Year Eight (Form Two for the oldies among us). Can you interpret them? "Anyways, nex-ted, brang, sof-ted, worser, much girls, took-en, bester, twoselves, draw-ded, stepted, many moneys, all their mens, hi-ted, lots of thems, and the best: One boy asked, 'What's wrong with 'Sheeps are dumb?' Another asked why the binder holes were 'on the wrong side of the paper?'"
Funny kid questions and answers
1. "My 4-year-old last week walking home from a birthday party, observing the lawns we passed: "Why are all these sprinklers on when no one is playing in them?"
2. I had a friend's daughter over to our house to play one day, she was about 5 years old. She had lived in apartments all her life and we had a fire going. She looked at me and said, "Why are you cooking wood?"
3. "My 7-year-old had answers for what BC and AD mean: "Before Computers" and "After Dinosaurs".
4. "I was talking about chickens with my 4-year-old the other day and he asked, "Chicken the food, or chicken the animal?"
