January 13 2010

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

January 13 2010

Teaching Link of the Day: PH
"phrase" cannot be pronounced 'frayz' because it doesn't have an F.

My fourth grade student told me this. We skipped the rest of the reading and read the words in the encyclopedia that begin with PH. Also, we replaced the F in F-words with PH. Phunny, huh?

This Day in History: First Mickey Mouse Comic Strip Released (1930)
"The editors never told me why all the sentences had to end in exclamation points, and I never asked, but I can think of three good reasons. One: not enough writers knew how to punctuate correctly, so the exclamation points simplified the chore to a foolproof system. Two: the exclamation point gave any sentence a seeming importance. Three: engravers making plates from the artwork were less likely to etch out an exclamation point. They could see it was something the artist had put there. A period they could mistake for something a fly had put there."
(Carl Barks; The Carl Barks Library of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories in Color, Album 38)


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