[Attila's Wife]

Following Dr Pendergast's link to this on another thread, I used his explanation and the ridiculous map in the first post as a teaching aid this afternoon. My students are a group of 7- to 9-year-olds whose parents send them here to learn English (and for the discipline they fail to provide at home).

Most of them sat slack-jawed as usual but one, 7-year-old Maria (she prefers to be called Mary in English class), IMMEDIATELY laughed out loud and said: "But the chart she is silly. If true, the Australia she must to turn because she in the contrary way. "

Brothers and Sisters, I was so delighted with her that I failed to correct her English!

In the words of Psalm 8:2

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

The rest of the children are a lost cause, as apparently the Pope has now told them that some monkey story is true, but at least one young Eyetie may yet be Saved.

HALLELUJAH!

YiC
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