Across the Great Divide

This summer I spent nearly a week in a house with two six-year-old twins and two five-year-old twins. It was probably my biggest dose of twee since I was just a little older than that age myself. All the kids really did pronounce a lot of their Rs and Ls like Ws.

I heard that this habit had proved to be a problem in the past school year when one of the gang got excited about an American history book he'd read--in fact, the one shown here, written by Candice Ransom and published by Lerner.

He did a show-and-tell on one of its central figures:

the expwowuh Mewiwethuh Wewis.

Unaccountably, his classmates were unable to grasp what all the excitement was about. Of course, they were Engwish.