[HPforGrownups] (OT) From the teacher's desk...

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 10344

>> Parker wrote:
>> 
>>> I, too, have had the same problem.  I've been using British
>>> spellings, punctuation, and grammar since I learned to read
>> and write.  However, *I* won the arguments with teachers.  (I was
>> *so* Hermione).

Penny wrote:
> Lucky you.  I still remember bitterly contesting the loss of a 4th grade
> spelling bee because I spelled it "honour" instead of "honor."  I insisted
> that both spellings were correct, but I lost the argument.  Obviously, I was
> bitter about it since I can still remember it to this day.  <g>  I guess
> it's because I wasn't outwardly Hermione enough.

I'm still bitter about my fourth-grade teacher (yes, I was still in the US
education system then) taking a point off because I used "got" as a past
tense instead of "gotten". I can remember being made to look through
Webster's Collegiate dictionary ::spits on the ground:: until I found it, as
well. It was in a Wordly Wise test...does anyone else remember those? They
were great, I always got over 100% because they gave us bonus questions. I
AM the male Hermione. Goodbye.

--John

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John Walton                 john at walton.to

"Con-ser-va-tive, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."
--Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary", 1842-c.1914

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