"am to ma"

[rhu]

This morning at dropoff, Tani's class whiteboard had the following question: "This is the season of teshuvah, which really means 'turning'. Can you think of something that turns?"

The kids had written in a nice variety of answers. Leaves, steering wheels, merry-go-rounds. Tani wrote:

am
to
ma

His teacher and I looked at him quizzically. He explained, "You can turn the word 'am' around to make the word 'ma'."

That's my boy!

Comments

[rymrytr.livejournal.com]

Didn't need to explain it to me, I saw it immediately! :o) My kinda kid.

In Junior College, in 1964, I submitted my paper for Creative Writing Class. The object was to create a "new" Cliche'. I wrote, "His speech and intentions, his point of view was to be taken for granite!" Meaning that he was adamant.

A large, red line was drawn through "granite" and the word "granted" was written next to it, along with an "F" for that paper! They just didn't understand me in those days; (and most still don't, today). :o) Your young man may be one of us who, without excessive effort, automatically think out-side the box. :o)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Gee, I wonder where he gets that from. :-)