Friday, November 01, 2013

Get the lead out of the paste, or something like that

To judge from the current round of student drafts, someone has been eating the paste again--or perhaps the phrase "memories of times pasted" refers to scrap-booking. And what's with all the lead in these papers? Maybe lead (the noun) in the paste led (the verb) to the nearly universal inability to spell the past-tense form of the verb lead: today I lead; yesterday I led. Or lead, if you've been indulging in too many memories of times pasted.

This calls for some doggerel:

Don't waste
my time
with paste.

Don't lead
my brain 
to read


plumbum
as verb.
It's dumb

to paste
the past.
You raced

to lead:
you led.
(Please heed,
she said.)


 

 
 

 

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