you-get-proud-by-practicing:Drastic Action by Lynda BarryMarlys is excused from homonyms. She is gif
you-get-proud-by-practicing:Drastic Action by Lynda BarryMarlys is excused from homonyms. She is gifted in words, her spelling is famous at our school.(Image: Marlys: “Actually, ‘then’ and ‘than’ aren’t true homonyms.” Arna (reading ‘Spell it Right’): “Actually, will you just shut up?”)I am on a list of people who need extra spelling help. My letters won’t go in the right order and certain words have letters that fight.(Image: Arna thinking: “Their. thier. their. thier. Dang! Ok, “When two vowels go walking…” Except ‘E’ and ‘I’ would never go walking because they hate each other.)Marlys can spell but she can’t tell you how ‘D’ fells about ‘F’ or how ‘C’ and ‘K’ are mad because they both are in ‘Stick’ but ‘K’ can’t be in ‘Drastic.’ Why?(Image: Arna: “‘K’ also hates ‘N’ because ‘K’ has to be silent like ‘Know.’” Marlys: “Excuse me but what ware you even talking about?”)And homonyms make the letters take sides. The ‘W’ in ‘Won’ declares war on the ‘E’ in ‘One.’ In my pencil they battle all the way to the paper. ‘E’ conquers ‘W’ and I write ‘W’ just to make ‘E’ mad. I get a ‘D’ on the test.Image: Marlys: “Dang! How could you miss on ‘One’??” Arna: “I have my reasons.”*****I am a good speller, but letters and numbers do have personalities and colors, and sometimes smells and tastes. -- source link