Date: Jul 25, 2008 03:15
On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:43:57 +0100, James Farrar
gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:00:28 -0700 (PDT), "Mait001@ aol.com"
> aol.com> wrote:
>
>>The 6-year-old son of my vicar in Fulham is a bit of a transport
>>whizzkid (he's learnt to read by memorising the entire Underground
>>map!) and is well on the way to memorsing the entire London bus map.
>>
>>He was recently asked to write about a family trip at the weekend. His
>>sentence "we took the Overground from Kew" was wrongly corrected by
>>his teacher to "Underground"!
>>
>>Silly teacher!
>
>I hope he argued the point, like I did at about that age when my
>teacher asserted that the Sun was a planet :)
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