Jeff Weintraub: “Life Reeked with Joy” Thanks to Norm for the link to this. The celebration of howlers is a regular feature of the educational end of term calendar. What’s great about this is that the writer has constructed a chronological narrative out of it.
I sent this to a colleague, who fired back a classic:
“In 1066, a man named Norman Conquest came to England and brought lots of French words with him.” (that’s from a first year undergraduate essay…)
Of course, I once did come across Mr and Mrs Conquest’s little boy Norman, but that will start us off on the barmy names thread again…
“Life Reeked with Joy” by Dr Rob Spence is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Wonderful collection, even for a teacher accustomed to .. erm.. , well, a certain amount of inventive and creative work of students.
Thanks for the link, Rob!