More than that: an uncultured person, lowbrow, brutish. And maybe, like Swift’s characters, disgustingly materialistic. After all, this is the dad who quotes Shakespeare.
And how do you feel about libraries? Some authors are actually opposed to them. Apparently they think that most borrowers would buy their books if they couldn’t borrow them. I think there would be far less readers and lower sales.
Could be a list of words to learn for a test; paragraphs in which you have to circle the misspelled words; sentences with spaces to insert commonly misspelled words; similar sentences to pick the correctly spelled one, etc.
It really seems as if the best method would be for Phoebe to sit on Florence’s back and pull out Marigold’s horn using her two very useful hands. But perhaps she is enjoying the tug of war (unicorns vs tree) too much.
Maybe swallowing one would have the same effect on a werewolf?