My beloved Ed may well be the worst speller on the planet, but I realized tonight that there is at least one aspect of life where fearlessly creative spelling is an advantage, and that is playing Boggle. Where I look for words that I recognize, Ed looks for letter combinations that look "wordy," and, when the sand has run it's course, that sometimes proves to be the winning strategy. Once we've eliminated the words that are shared, I open the Dictionary and start to look up Ed's "words." The deal is that I check them and he keeps me entertained with pretend definitions of his pretend words. The thing is, sometimes his pretend words turn out to be real. Tonight he scored with "scouse," which is a sailor's stew and a word I've never heard of. He also got "fiat" and "whig," neither of which he knew the meaning of, but he thought they looked "wordy" (and I just plain didn't see them). I beat him anyway, but none of my words was nearly as good as scouse.
Monday, February 12, 2007
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LOL!! I loved this post! Derick is a horrible speller too, but I would never in a million years be able to get him to sit down for a game of Boggle.
I like how Ed says the letters just looked "wordy". That's a great strategy! ;)
You know, when I saw the title of your post, I thought you were going to blog about The Monkees. They had a song called ---- OMG, I just googled the title, b/c I thought perhaps I was spelling the last word of the song wrong. I wasn't. But I also had NO idea what it meant. Now I do. So I won't type it. *blush*
Anyhow, nevermind.
Go Ed and Wordy Boggle!!!
Dy
Jules,
It seems a bit slapdash to me, but it works!
Dy,
Now I have to google the Monkees to figure out what The Word is! My dad says our dictionary is wrong, and the word should really be lobscouse.
A "scouse" is somebody from Liverpool, England. :-)
Dy
I'm married to a Scouse. It's a word to describe someone from Liverpool, the Liverpool accent or dialect, and the beefstew they make. Never heard it called "sailor's stew" but it makes sense since it used to be a very big port.
Now I have to go google the Monkees.
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