Thursday, July 10, 2008

All in a day's work

Child #1:  Do you have any books on entomology?
Me:  Do you mean insects?
Child #1:  No.
Me:  Do you mean words?
Child #2:  No.
Me:  Okay.  What's it about?
Child #1:  I think it's something about human...something.
Me:  How do you spell it?
Child #2 [slowly]:  A...
Child #1:  Is it about horoscopes?
Me.  Okay.  Astrology is about horoscopes.  Astronomy is about stars and constellations.  Anatomy is about the human body.  Entomology is about insects.  Etymology is about words.
Child #1:  It's astrology.
Me.  Okay, let's go look over here.

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