For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 13, 2011

“Sumer”?!?

Shouldn’t MIchael know how to spell Summer by now?

Guess Michael didn’t win this year’s spelling bee.

Why not? I think they spell fall ‘autumn’.

We spell it “summer”. Only one nation in the world removes letters from words… USofA.Behaviour. Favour. Flavour. Neighbour. Savour. Saviour. Dang American’s ruining the words. :P

No, prrdh, they spell autumn “fall”.

Oooh, that’ll be talked about on the playground for days…-—————————-@Allan: It was a joke, really. And the American spelling of those words is more intuitive and efficient. Besides, I’m sure the Canadian French is not considered to be correct or proper by the European French either, so who cares? :-P

The Brits would be first to say “The Americans haven’t spoken English in over 300 years”.

And mid-week is pronounced WED nez dee.

And school levels take the cardnal, not ordinal – it is “grade 2” not “second grade”. This appears frequently in FBOW.

Well, how else are you supposed to sign it? LOL

Winter is icumen in,

Lhude sing Goddam!

Apparently he doesn’t dislike Mrs. Hardacre as much as he thought he did! Either that or he’s feeling “charitable” since he’s moving on to the next grade level and is finally, after such a long and difficult year, leaving her behind him like a bad memory.