I know I have been a little sporadic lately in the posting department. I’ve been playing around A LOT with my new Nook Color, and only some of that has been reading. I don’t know if you’ve seen anywhere that the hacker community has really taken a hankerin’ to this groovy little device. They’ve made it pretty easy to stick in a micro-sd card and reboot, so that your Nook becomes an almost full-fledged touch-screen tablet. Whoa! So I’ve been doing a lot of experimenting and app hunting. More later. Anyway…on to today’s pearls of wisdom. We’re back from a three-day weekend, and I’m looking to start slowly, maybe give them a chance for some easy points, review something they should already have down cold. Hahahahahahaha. I put a list of 10 words on the screen and said, “Make ‘em plural.” enemy, stereo, knife, wife’s, child, sheep, tray, box, volcano, Simpson The fun begins immediately. “Does spelling count?” (Seriously? Yes. All. Day. Long.) “Only if you want to get it right.” “That’s not fair.” “Wha? IT’S THE WHOLE POINT.” I give them about three or four minutes, and then we trade and correct. And here it comes: the most misused



