Caveats

Way to be careful DJ, I almost always add the 'r' to Chinar. It's the Bostonian in me. In the realm of this blog, the Scottish capital is Eddie Bert and the motherland is Chinar. I like my pillows firm, plums sour, showers in the morning, soup over salad, rigatoni instead of spaghetti, and an 'r' at the end of Chinar.

So erm, the English textbook that one of my nieces is using is teaching her all these erroneous things, like fiber is spelled with 're' and that there are these snacks called 'crisps.' No idea what they're about. And she goes to a good high school at that. How's one supposed to learn English this way? Maybe after a decade or so with the language, they can adapt to these things and learn to discern right from wrong, but to be burdened with these things from the start? What's next- chips over fries?