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Monday, December 18, 2017

Debating a Second Grader on the Merits of Wikipedia and the Etymology of 'Ladybird'

This is wonderful:

“Mom,” he said, “you are not going to believe what’s going on in here. Dad made the biggest mistake of his life. He thought Shakespeare meant ladybug in Rom and Jul but Shakespeare actually meant sweetheart and now he’s trying to pretend like the writers of the OED are stupid just so he can be right and I can be wrong because he can’t stand a seven-year-old being smarter than him!”
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