My uncle says the two always go together.
When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."
-from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451-
Thursday, April 8, 2010
I think he just wanted to say titty.
Vocab is one of my favorite parts of my junior classes. I have the kids write sentences using the words and then we read them out loud. It never fails to be an incredibly entertaining experience. Today a student, the same one who asked what a "bra-zee-ay" was, was a bit stumped when it came to using piety in a sentence. His solution?
Kid: So can you use piety in a different form? Like pi-eh-titty-us? You know, like "he was a really pi-eh-titty-us person"?
Me: Uh, what? How is that even spelled?
Kid: Pietitious?
Me: Pie-eh-ti-shus? That doesn't even phonetically make sense your way. Also, there's already a form of that word: pious.
Kid: Oh! That makes SO much more sense! But I'm still going to use this word.
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