USELESS LETTER E'S
This week, Jared has been reading big words without blinking. My eyebrows went up when he read, "refrigerator." But my jaw dropped when he read the title of the CD that came with his Smithsonian volcano kit. He put it in for the first time, installed it, and ran the program by himself, then when the title popped up on the screen, he read, "Earthquakes and Eruptions!"

Then he attempted to read the bottle of Goo-Gone.
"Goo gohn," he said.
"Actually, Jared, it's Gone."
"But the silent E means that O says its name."
"I know. That word doesn't follow the rules."

So today, he was looking at the bottle again and declared, "There shouldn't be an E at the end of Gone. It's a silent E that doesn't do anything!"

We really do have a screwed-up language!