Wednesday 13 June 2007

It's Wednesday, so it's spelling test day at school for my 8 year old daughter. This week the words are:

beside
between
behind
beneath
beyond
alongside
close to
opposite
next to
adjacent to
under
underneath

Yes, these are prepositions, a category of adpositions. My daughter reminds me that these are not postpositions, circumpositions, interpositions or even ambipositions. Seems that grammar has more positions than a cricket team. At the risk of having to explain the rules of cricket, I offer an alternative spelling list:

over
before
mid
at
off
out of
by
on
in
for
in front of
under

Thanks to Really Huge News, you are now fully equipped to play cricket. Enjoy.