The Poets light but Lamps

The Poets light but Lamps—
Themselves—go out—
The Wicks they stimulate—
If vital Light

Inhere as do the Suns—
Each Age a Lens
Disseminating their
Circumference— 

Emily Dickinson


jpr: The winning submission by Ellie Sue (3 yrs old)

the pill solution

Make all pills large!
Make all pills coated with marshmallow!
Make all pills labeled in chocolate!

what makes english grammer so hard

example #1:
Its = belonging to it. “The frying pan has a dent in its handle.”
It’s = it is. “It’s not my fault the frying pan is dented!”


Example  #2:In fact, almost any adjective can be used as a noun, just put “the” in front of it: “The dead shall walk the earth.” And any noun can be used as a verb, like in the famous example, “I’ll cookie you!”

example #3:.The verb-adverb combination is peculiar to English, as illustrated by constructions such as "turn on," "turn off," "mark up," or "mark down".

why English spelling is difficult

English is sometimes described as orthographically ‘deep’ – that means it is often not written as it sounds.

The language started on a small island which was invaded several times by different groups of people. Each group influenced the language spoken in England. It’s not very regular!

 In English, however, spelling is rarely changed when we take a word from another language. So ‘chef’ (from French) is not changed to ‘shef’, although this would be a better phonetic spelling for this word in English.

The English spoken in many countries show great variation so the spelling cannot reflect the pronunciation – or the spelling would also be different in each country!

Then when the printing press arrived in England in the 16th century, the early printers felt it was their job to standardise English spelling and they made some strange decisions. It has been suggested that ‘women’ is spelled like that because the printers thought that all the up and down strokes in ‘wimin’ would be too difficult to read. Now it’s just difficult to spell!

Why English pronunciation is so difficult-

The bandage was wound around the wound. 

The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. 

Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present. 

state bird of georgia

The Brown Thrasher

 He sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
That first fine careless rapture!

by  Browning

GEORGIA STATE FLOWER

Cherokee Rose