‘Woman without her man is a savage.’
When this sentence was given to a class to punctuate correctly, it was found that the boys took it one way, the girls another.
Boys: ‘Woman, without her man, is a savage.’
Girls: ‘Woman! Without her, man is savage.’
Satisfied in the past with the work of ayoung teacher who supplemented his income by doing interior decorating, we employed him again. When his bill came, we say he had charged us Rs.120 per room.
‘But last time it was Rs.100.’ my wife reminded him.
‘Yes,’ he answered. ‘But that was before I got my M.A.’
The Sunday Times prints the following conversation between a visiting American and an Eton schoolmaster:
‘Do you allow your boys to smoke?’ the American asked.
‘I’m afraid not,’ said the Etonian.
‘Can they drink?’
‘Good gracious, no.”
‘What about dates?’
‘Oh, that’s all right, said the master, ‘as long as they don’t eat too many.’
‘What steps,’ a question in a college exam read, ‘would you take in determining the height of a building, using an aneroid barometer?’
One student, short of knowledge but long on ingenuity, replied: ‘ I sould lower the barometer on a string and measure the string.’
When this sentence was given to a class to punctuate correctly, it was found that the boys took it one way, the girls another.
Boys: ‘Woman, without her man, is a savage.’
Girls: ‘Woman! Without her, man is savage.’
Satisfied in the past with the work of ayoung teacher who supplemented his income by doing interior decorating, we employed him again. When his bill came, we say he had charged us Rs.120 per room.
‘But last time it was Rs.100.’ my wife reminded him.
‘Yes,’ he answered. ‘But that was before I got my M.A.’
The Sunday Times prints the following conversation between a visiting American and an Eton schoolmaster:
‘Do you allow your boys to smoke?’ the American asked.
‘I’m afraid not,’ said the Etonian.
‘Can they drink?’
‘Good gracious, no.”
‘What about dates?’
‘Oh, that’s all right, said the master, ‘as long as they don’t eat too many.’
‘What steps,’ a question in a college exam read, ‘would you take in determining the height of a building, using an aneroid barometer?’
One student, short of knowledge but long on ingenuity, replied: ‘ I sould lower the barometer on a string and measure the string.’
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