beyond the pail

[Mark A Mandel]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Mai Kuha wrote:

#On 3/6/03 6:31 PM, Gordon, Matthew J. wrote:
#
#> What's odd about this is why the teachers, who presumably are bucket folk too,
#> are not making allowances for the children. (...)
#
#Interesting question! I'm wondering whether some teachers feel so much
#linguistic insecurity that they don't dare apply their own intuitions, so
#whatever the book says is right and everything else is wrong. For all they
#know, maybe "bucket" is yet another item that refined people point and laugh
#at.

And this is where that insecurity begins (spoken ex cathedra from no
formal knowledge or studies of it at all).

-- Mark A. Mandel