There are some language mistakes that I am reluctant to correct because they have a poetic quality about them. For example, one of the fifth graders leaves off the ending of "question," so before he asks anything, he says, "I have a quest." I find this preface casts a certain nobleness on whatever banal query that follows, usually something along the lines of "How spell you guinea pig?"
By the way, "How spell you guinea pig?" is the most frequent question I have been asked since coming to Germany. I had to look it up.
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