Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Wordsmithing...

Last Sunday I was over with Dan at his parent's house and we were playing Bananagrams and we were down to the last round. I just drew my last two letters and Dan, Carol (his mom) and I were all racing to figure out how to make our last word. (Bananagrams is kind of like playing Scrabble, but without the Scrabble board.)

Unfortunately, the last two letters I drew were both Qs. And guess what I did NOT have amid ALL of my other letters?

That's right. I had two Qs and absolutely no Us. I had every OTHER vowel, but not one U. I figured that there was absolutely no way I could possibly win. In fact, I didn't know ANY word that did not have a "qu" in it.

I asked Dan and Carol if I could puruse the dictionary while they faneggled their last letters. (Because I figured I wouldn't win

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