He smirked. “Well the principle don’t rule us here!”
“Huh?”
“You said you wouldn’t do it outta principle. I was making a joke.”
“Those words are spelled differently. The principal is your pal.”
“Mr. Jansen ain’t my pal.”
“No, it’s a mnemonic device, for remembering the spell–”
“Just smoke it!!!”
Caroline Shapiro is a writer and aspiring zookeeper living in Tucson, Arizona.
After thirty days of rain, the clouds got bored, so they made it snow, instead.
People whined and complained, but the clouds didn’t speak English, because they had come from Brazil.
The local government hired some Brazilians to complain to the clouds on their behalf. It didn’t really work, though.
Welcome to This Country! proclaimed the sign.
“Why does it say ‘This Country,’ Dad?” asked Emma. “I thought we were going to That Country.”
“We were,” said her dad. “And now we’ve arrived. Isn’t This Country so much prettier than There?”
“I thought we just came from Here…”
“We did.”
English is fun!