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To: doubled

Well done. A+ for you. I was going over “defenestrate” this morning with one of the kiddos, who had a teacher completely butcher the word in class yesterday. I had to pull out the big dictionary for proof(teenagers!) and told him if a teacher cannot pronounce a word correctly, their usage is probably off too.


65 posted on 02/05/2009 7:55:32 AM PST by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: secret garden

It was either 1st grade or kindergarten when my daughter used the word “zebu” as an example of a z word for the class. (It’s an animal, she learned it from VeggieTales.) The teacher didn’t know it and said my daughter was wrong.

The next day, I sent in with my daughter a photocopy of the dictionary page.


68 posted on 02/05/2009 8:15:55 AM PST by SoothingDave
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