Re: Boy, do I feel dumb!

[Betty Louise Copeland <bcope@TENET.EDU>]

Yep--that was a real shocker when I grew up and found out that the word
was not paws--but pause--that's the perils of growing up!

Betty Copeland
St. Michael's Academy
Austin, Texas
bcope@tenet.edu


On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Marian Colclasure wrote:

> I printed out words to some of the more famous Chirstmas songs for the
> students to use in their classrooms.  One of the teachers came up to me
> and said that I chose the wrong spelling for one of the words.  How would
> you have filled in this blank: ???
>
>          "Up on the housetop, reindeer __________________;
>           Out jumps good ol' Santa Clause."
>
> All my life, I thought that word was "paws,"  but it's "pause."  At first
> we had a friendly argument until she said, "Marian, reindeer don't have
> paws; they have hooves.  Am I the only one who thought the word was "paws?"
>
>                                                 Marian S. Colclasure
>                                                 LMS, Rogers Public Schools
>