Do you write friction or non-friction?

Kids say the darndest things!

Some amusing kid statements can be found in Richard Lederer’s book, Angished English, Dell Publishing, 1997, (Pages 3 – 10).

  • Early Egyptian women often wore a garment called a calasiris. It was a sheer dress which started beneath the breasts which hung to the floor.
  • Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak.
  • Pompeii was destroyed by an overflow of saliva from the Vatican.
  • The two kinds of books printed are friction and non-friction.
  • Chaucer was the father of English Pottery.
  • Rambo was a French poet.
  • Hamlet had an edible complex.
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