Could Do Better

Norman McGreevy's illustrated selection of school children's struggles with the pitfalls of the English language ranges from hilarious howlers on topics like history and religion to ridiculous spelling errors, grammatical catastrophes and malapropisms. Examples include: An octopus is a person who hopes for the best. There are 4 kinds of food - tinned, jarred, caned & raped. His mother, being immortal, had died. Running is a great sport, and I thank God for exposing me to the track team. I took out a book to read and settled down to read, but soon put it down because I couldn't read. Romeo and Juliet tell each other how much they are in love in the baloney scene. She draped her posterior over a grubby stool. The equator is a menagerie lion running around the Earth through Africa.