Wednesday 4 July 2007

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

second
minute
hour
millilitre
litre
millimetre
centimetre
metre
kilometre
gram
kilogram
degrees Celcius

Units of measurement. Important stuff, which is why I offer my alternative spelling list:

demi
standard
magnum
jeroboam
rehoboam
imperial
methusalah
salmanazer
balthazar
nebuchadnezzar
solomon
primat

My twelve year old son tells me that the only unit of measurement worth contemplating is the number of days until the summer holidays.



13 and counting.