[Ads-l] dialect clash in second grade

[George Thompson]

I've been going to an almost-nearby elementary school to read with
children.  This year the children are from 2nd grade.  I picked up at the
local library a version of Old Mother Hubbard Went to Her Cupboard,
illustrated by James Marshall, who some of you may remember as the writer
and illustrator of the George & Martha books.

I don't remember the original OMHWHC, so I don't know whether Marshall
added some verses.  In his book, Old Mother Hubbard went to a hosier to buy
her dog some hose.  The first child I read this with evidently thought that
Old Mother Hubbard had strange ideas about her dog, if she thought that he
would want hos.  When I sat with the next child, when we came to that page
I explained what a hosier sold.

Despite this little problem, it's a very funny book.  I will probably buy a
copy.

GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- affectionately (of course) also known as The Dunghill
Toadstool.  (Here's a picture of one.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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