Spelling Geek Prints

'Therapist is one word George!'

"Can I borrow the car keys?"

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

I will study my speling words...

'Why can't we have a texting bee?'

Someone who knows apostrophes

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

Smith Academy. A Tradition of Excellense.

"I know its hard to believe right now, Lawrence, but some day you'll thank me for asking you to punctuate your sentences correctly."

"Sorry I'm late. I overslept." "Is that even a real word?"

Kardiff.

"Nuts to you, too."

'The definition of OBSOLETE: old fashioned dictionaries.'

Conflating Science and Grammar. The boy threw the ball. What grammatical role does "ball" play in this sentence? An object in motion!

"Let's fall in love and live in the subjunctive."

"So, hw ws yr smmr?"

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

'I made a good grade in creative writing, but I didn't do very well in creative spelling.'

'Poll results are in...90% of Americans can't spell Schwarzenneger.'

"You have no idea what it's like to be a 'just between you and me' person in a 'just between you and I' world."

"I've just invented the question mark."

Sometimes Y Turn

The First Sentence Fragment: 'Hey, don't -'

"We're developing a plan to fix this."

'The meaning of life? sorry, I can only answer 'true or false' questions.'

'I got and 'E' in spelling.' - 'That is an 'F'.'

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

"What's another word for 'thesaurus'?"

'It's not scatting if they're under age two.'

'What does coincide mean?' 'It's what you do when it starts to rain.'

"If you want to sing in our band, you'll have to overcome your fear of using double negatives."

"Call me, Ishmael."

"Okay, okay. 'Canine.' That's 'K-N-i-N-E.' Oh rats!"