Once a teacher, always a teacher, unless like me you become a tutor after you retire. Today, I thought I'd tell you all a few totally interesting things about the letter T.
There are tons of tremendous T words in the English language. When my older daughter was a tot, she fell in love with Tigger, Winnie the Pooh's friend, and she still has her tiger-sized stuffed one to this day. Some of the greatest inventions of all time were the telegraph, telephone, and television. I remember that I taught my fourth graders all about tall tales, tremors, tenses, tactics for totalling numbers, the classroom taboos, the senses of touch and taste, all about spring flowers like my favourite tulip, and I liked to tease them about upcoming tests. When my mother was young, she would take the tram to town, whereas I could take a trans-Atlantic flight to trek around Thailand, Tibet, or Timbuktu!
Things you may not know about T:
* T is the twentieth letter in the English alphabet and the sixt
eenth consonant
eenth consonant* T is pronounced the same as a drink - tea
* T is the second most commonly used letter in the English language
* T may have represented a cross in early alphabets
* T is one of the letters given to contestants in the game show Wheel of Fortune
* There are six T tiles in the English game of Scrabble
There are tons of tremendous T words in the English language. When my older daughter was a tot, she fell in love with Tigger, Winnie the Pooh's friend, and she still has her tiger-sized stuffed one to this day. Some of the greatest inventions of all time were the telegraph, telephone, and television. I remember that I taught my fourth graders all about tall tales, tremors, tenses, tactics for totalling numbers, the classroom taboos, the senses of touch and taste, all about spring flowers like my favourite tulip, and I liked to tease them about upcoming tests. When my mother was young, she would take the tram to town, whereas I could take a trans-Atlantic flight to trek around Thailand, Tibet, or Timbuktu!
And to terminate this post, here is a photo I took of my favourite flower, the tulip. This was the first bloom in my garden last Spring and I received compliments on this photo from a favourite photographer friend of mine - some of you may also know him as authorblog aka David McMahon. A positive comment from him is praise indeed! (click to enlarge for details)
That's the tastiest T tale to tumble toward this town 'til the tenth T tale triumphantly takes the trophy to Toronto.
ReplyDeleteNot that it made any sense, but it was fun.
Yours made sense, and it was fun, too. Thanks, Leslie!
-- K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel
My son it was Thomas the Tank engine!
ReplyDeleteGreat, fun post for the T Day, Leslie, as always! Love your photo and congrats on the lovely comment from David! He's certainly made my day several times! Hope your week is going well!
ReplyDeleteSylvia
A wonderful T post today!! Love Tigger and the well brewed cup of Tea!!
ReplyDeleteHave a great festive season ahead!!
"T" for "tres interessant." :-)
ReplyDeleteI am Tigger most definitely. Think we are all tutors through blogging always learning from one another. Great post.
ReplyDeleteGreat T and I just love that Tulip and no, I am not prejudiced because I have a tulip tattooed on my shoulder or because I'm Dutch. It's a fantastic photo!
ReplyDeleteT is for sure an important letter! Let's here it for the letter T! :))
ReplyDeleteTotally t's. Terrific post - and I have to say that tulip is truly tremendous!
ReplyDeleteGreat set of T's Teacher. You have really given us a good and interesting read.
ReplyDeleteI really adore your photo of the tulip. How pretty. Stunning.
ReplyDeleteI love all of your good ideas for this post : ) I think it is because you are a teacher!
What a delightful T tale you told. I truly enjoyed it from the tantalizing first word to the tulip ending. Great post for T day today. Now I think I will go fix a cup of Tea.
ReplyDeleteTigger was a favorite of my daughter too. Great post for the letter T.
ReplyDeletetea for two.
ReplyDeletemy wife is a teacher; teachers are fine people, aren't they?
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
That's a ton of "t" facts Leslie - and quite tantalizing! I'll bet you're a fantastic teacher - tutoring is good too! I'll go check that link now - thanks!
ReplyDeleteAwesome post Leslie. I loved every word of it. You really found a lot of T's.
ReplyDeleteIts always a pleasure to come here and see what you are going to share with us.
I think I would love to have you for a teacher, except I'm much older than you...(:0)
Tremendous romp through T!
ReplyDeleteLoved your details about T.
And you're right once a teacher, always a teacher!
Take care.
What a lot of fun T's, and appreciated the information about the letter, too. You make a good teacher, Teacher!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lot of fun T's, and appreciated the information about the letter, too. You make a good teacher, Teacher!
ReplyDeleteVery great T post, Leslie! Very clever to find so many T's in one post.I think that you are a great teacher.Thanks for this T post! Thanks for your visit and kind comment! Have a great day today, tomorrow and the rest of the week!
ReplyDeleteI have been a teacher (of sorts) for a large part of my working life, but today you taught me something :-)
ReplyDeletePS Praise from David is always "a good thing".
Terrific t's!
ReplyDeleteI'm also a Teacher Turned Tutor and was interested to learn of the importance of T in the English language. Lovely post :-)
ReplyDeleteVery nice indeed I’ll probably download it. Thanks
ReplyDeleteQuite an interesting T time post :)
ReplyDeleteVery informative, Leslie. I agree - "Once a teacher..."
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