February 20, 2008
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Right It Write
Right now I have over 30 high schoolers in my WriteAtHome work. Most of them exhibit an admirable work ethic and a solid education. They make me very hopeful for the next crop of homeschooled students that will be let loose in the world.
I’ve been doing this for a few years now, and always have a few laugh-out-loud moments each month. Here are a few of their typos from this year so far:
• “James Bond likes his matinees shaken not stirred.”
• On the last page of that research paper: “Works Sited”
• “Churchill seemed to care not for the system that tortured and suppressed millions of pheasants….”
• “When he regains conscience.”
Nope, spell checkers don’t work if the WRONG word is spelled right.
|||||| lynard
Comments (5)
I like my matinees the same way!!
My best student typo this year was this one, from a student who was writing about his recent trip to Italy. He apparently got to visit the “Sixteenth Chapel.”
You know, suppressed pheasant under glass is a delicacy, I think.
Not nice to poke fun at the “special” or “gifted,” people like me who cannot spell.
Hilarious! It is nice that you can fined humor in your work.
(I did that on porpoise.)