1. When
talking about a break-in, a student enquired, “Why the body don’t lock the
door?”
2.When
the students were asked what term was used for one’s grandmother’s grandmother,
a student quipped, “Ghost”.
3. A
cute seven-year-old was singing the nursery rhyme ‘Mary had a little lamb’.
Somehow it didn’t sound so right, so I asked her to sing it a little louder. I had a good laugh when I heard that she had
been singing, ‘Mary had a little man’.
4. In
the last paragraph of a personal letter to an ex-classmate now living in
another state, a student wrote, “I will be illegally waiting for your reply!”.
5. “I
take a mutual stand on this issue,” a student said. Something did not sound
right about that statement. Try as I might, I couldn’t get the exact word.
References to collocations brought no results. So I turned to friends and
relatives before I was enlightened. The student had meant to say, “I take a
neutral stand’.
