Except the poor boy isn't nocturnal. He's medieval.
And so came another iteration of my lecture, "How English is an Odd Language."
I spelled "knight" and "night" on the big kitchen chalkboard, then pointed to the chalked words "ate" and "eight" from a few days earlier.
Homonyms.
We talked about how English came to be odd--just like America with its diverse multicultural, multinational populace, English is a combination, a linguistic melting pot, full of words from other languages. Of course, now they're going to think English was invented in America, but I can cross that bridge later.
And Bud spent the rest of the day coming to me with more "sounds the same, spelled differently":
Hear and here.
See and sea.
Eye and I.
Not too shabby for a boy who can't read or spell.
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