Tonight, after helping a patron find that Newbery book that had a sailboat on the front cover, I thought for sure I would be able to stump him with my new word I learned. It went like this:
Me: (laughing to self, hee hee hee) Hey! Do you know what a (dramatic pause) frigate is?One of these days I'm going to stump him. Any suggestions?
Him: Yeah...it's a sailing ship, and a quite formidable one at that.
Me: (growling) How the hell do you know that?
Him: I played a pirate game when I was a kid.
Me: Curses. Foiled again.
2 comments:
What about going the deceptively simple route, like "peruse" (I think most people would say it means something along the likes of "skim," but it can be both that and a careful reading) or "continuously" compared to "continually"?
That worked!!!!! He was stumped by the continuously / continually question. YAY! Thanks Kristin!! :)
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