Magic and Mayhem

Our fabulous friend Tiffany is British and my kids and I love learning her lingo!  If you want to play along, here’s a few words to work into your vocabulary. 

• Get cross!  You’re no longer cranky, annoyed or anything beginning with B.  You’re cross.  Don’t you sound more sophisticated already?
• Take the footpath.  It’s not a sidewalk, silly.  Footpath.  Suddenly the walk has class!
• Have a to-mah-to. 
• Take your vit-(rhymes with bit!)amins!
• Park in the garage (rhymes with carriage).
• Change your baby’s nappy.  It’s barely even a chore when you get to call it a nappy!

I’ve also discovered that the British way of writing cursive (”joined up writing”) is much more logical than ours!  Their letters still look like the regular letters, just joined together.  I’ve decided to completely disregard teaching cursive in light of this new development and the fact that all adults develop their own cursive style anyway, and just make sure my kids write legibly!  It’s quite freeing, let me tell you.  Or would be if I really actually had been spending much time worrying about cursive to begin with!

Tiffany tries to use American lingo because some people tease her about it, but I think the way she talks is charming and I hope she never loses her lovely British side.  I love that my kids now take their vittttamins too.