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July 22, 2008

Okay So I Can’t Believe that It Took Me Reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar for the Twelve Bazillionth Time Today to Notice…

…that Eric Carle totally made a little funny when he had the caterpillar eat a pair of pears on Tuesday. The moral of the story? Do not underestimate The Carle.

Book mentioned:
Carle, Eric. The Very Hungry Caterpillar. NY: Philomel Books, 1969. (DUDE, I am NOT EVEN going to list all of the eds. of this book. If you can't find it, you aren't trying.)

Posted by adrienne at July 22, 2008 11:54 AM

Comments

Hee. I've never noticed that either.

And I think ALL annotations or reference notes should have "dude" in them.

Posted by: jules at July 22, 2008 09:31 PM

I know, if one of the style guides adopted "DUDE" as a regular part of references, I would stick by it until my dying day. Alas.

Posted by: adrienne at July 22, 2008 10:35 PM

pair (of shoes, couple)
pear (the fruit)
pare (as in paring the pear)

Try explaining that to people learning English!

Posted by: Heidi at July 23, 2008 04:41 AM

If you can't find it, you're purposely trying NOT to find it. That's how prevalent it is.

Posted by: Sarah at July 23, 2008 08:26 AM

Heidi, There are tons of words like that in English. I don't know how anyone learns it.

Sarah, So true. You can even get it at most grocery stores these days.

Posted by: adrienne at July 23, 2008 10:20 AM

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