ConstitutionalGirl wrote:blueveinedthrobber wrote:Slappy Doo Hoo wrote:It's a plan to keep spelling lessons in the classrom going long past elementary school.
to no apparent avail.
What is an avail?
Main Entry: 1avail
Pronunciation: &-'vA(&)l
Function: verb
1 : to be of use or advantage to : PROFIT
2 : to result in : bring about <his efforts availed him nothing>
- avail oneself of also avail of : to make use of : take advantage of
Oh, I thought it was something that a bride put over her face :-D
I love that story but I knew it wasn't true the minute I read it. (1) I listen to NPR regularly (almost exclusively); and (2)I'd heard the story before, told in a different context, with different names but the same pinch-line.
Glad you posted it, though, BVT. The problem with kids and guns is that, in most cases, nobody has bothered to teach them gun safety. It's analogous to the uptight parents who don't want their kids to have sex education because it might lead them to want to "do it."
HA! Just keeping you people on your toes.
Yup, that's it. I misspelled "classroom" on purpose, to make sure you can all read....um...uh-huh.
Slap who needs to spell when you've got One Billion dollars....
wots all this staff bout spelin?
And sharks with laser beams attached to their foreheads.
Huked on fonics werked fer mee
