Learnings

Here are a few things I've learned this semester:

1) based on English phonics, this word- ghoti- says fish. maybe you'd heard that, but i don't think i had. anyway: gh as in rough, o as in women, and ti as in motion.

2) you know how they say that life is one big rollercoaster? well, it's geographically true. the equator is about 24,000 miles long, and so people there are rotating with the earth at about 1,000 miles per hour. we're moving a bit slower in gville, and cari, you're obviously slower in ithaca, but still, 900 mph is faster than any roller coaster i've ever been on. :)

3) and most importantly: i always laughed at ms. harper when she said "ax" instead of "ask". but she was actually basing her speech in old English, whether she knew it or not. our verb, "ask", comes from the old English word "acsian", and somewhere along the line we transposed the s and the c. people like ms. harper, however, just liked the tradition of it all, i guess. believe it or not.

love,
bethany