Spelling Quiz

[Cave Dweller]

What word starts with "F" and ends with "U - C - K"?













"Firetruck", of course.

[slymyke]

haha... I'm wondering if I should tell that to my 5 y/o, so she can tell her teacher...     naw... better not.

[Magoo]

Nowadays this sounds like a joke the kids would say.  

[Cave Dweller]

This originates from my brother-in-law.

He told it forty-three years ago when he was seven.

[Baldstu]

Nice one cave dweller

[Mike E. P.]

haha... I'm wondering if I should tell that to my 5 y/o, so she can tell her teacher...     naw... better not.

Reminded me of my own true story.  When my daughter was in Kindergarten, we got a call from her teacher.  Apparently she was teaching kids to put their fingers in their mouth and say, "truck."  My nine year old taught that to her.  What makes this more mortifying is that I was a teacher in the same school.  Fortunaely, she is 15 now and her cursing days are long gone!

[Blitzed]

More than sixty years ago my sister came home from school and informed our parents that she needed a spider dictionary. I had just arrived from the Cape and was still fighting English as a first language so I was consulted to see if I had a clue; I didn't. Being dutiful people they acquired a book about spiders and sent it off with her. No luck, back she came with a polite note from a teacher thanking them but explaining that, sadly, the first grade didn't deal with spiders. Also, why had they sent it. Much head scratching, direct interrogation at table. Our butler, who had the same non-linear way of thinking, paused whilst handing round something and said, "Spider....Spiders...Spider's Web...Webster Dictionary". He was, of course, correct.

[slymyke]

More than sixty years ago my sister came home from school and informed our parents that she needed a spider dictionary. I had just arrived from the Cape and was still fighting English as a first language so I was consulted to see if I had a clue; I didn't. Being dutiful people they acquired a book about spiders and sent it off with her. No luck, back she came with a polite note from a teacher thanking them but explaining that, sadly, the first grade didn't deal with spiders. Also, why had they sent it. Much head scratching, direct interrogation at table. Our butler, who had the same non-linear way of thinking, paused whilst handing round something and said, "Spider....Spiders...Spider's Web...Webster Dictionary". He was, of course, correct.

That was great how he could put that together, thinking from the kid's perspective.  A spider is a web-ster.    lol