This weather is great…knock on wood, if you can knock on the finest oak you can find, or better yet go outside and get a real living tree (I find it works the best). But seriously people, the weather has been teasing us ALL year. Every time that I think its getting nice out, the warm weather only lasts for a day or two. But this time I think Spring is really here! And you know what I love about spring?

Of course you don’t thats why I am going to tell you…It seems that this wonderful weather just puts everyone in an extraordinary mood. People are so influenced by the weather that I think you could get away with about anything… I think I could default on a couple loans and the bank would just be so giddy from the weather that they wouldn’t care. Heck, I could probably get away with not turning in my paper due tomorrow, not going to chapel, not wearing a shirt to class, starting a food fight in the MP, or even forking President Edwards front lawn.

I hope you all realize that I wrote that last paragraph facetiously and I am really not going to do any of that stuff. And on a side note (which I am sure you have realized by now my brain works in side notes…I don’t really stay on topic that well) a really love the word “facetiously” and I think I am going to tell you what I say every time I use the word. Are you ready for it? If you look at “facetiously” closely there is something unique about the word…Can you see it? Look again… “facetiously“… that’s right it has every vowel in order in the word!!! How exciting! And on a side note to my side note, I have recently heard that not only is y considered sometimes a vowel, but now w is considered sometimes a vowel…yea I think its weird. The reasoning behind this I’ve heard is that because…well let me just show you what I found on a forum at (http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhenIsWAVowel/mwbn/post.htm)

A good reason to include Y and W as vowels (vowel letters, actually) is that they pair with other vowel letters to create digraphs which have characteristic sounds. “AY”, “EY”, “OY”, “AW”, “EW”, “OW”. But when not at the end of a word, these are “AI”, “EI”, “OI”, “AU”, “EU”, “OU”. (Of course there are exceptions. That’s how English is!) Because Y and I form a pair that substitute for each other, and W and U also, it’s not such a bad idea to include both when introducing the concept to children.

Furthermore,

…there are two words in the english language that use the letter “w” as a vowel.

The first is “cwm” pronounced “coom” which is the basin at the bottom of a mountain sometimes containing a lake and the other is “crwth” which is an ancient celtic musical instrument. Hope this answers your question.

So yea I am really off topic now but I hope you all learned something from me today! WAIT there is one more useless fact I have for you…The longest word you can type on one letter of your keyboard is indeed “typewriter” and yep you just looked at your keyboard! Haha…too much fun.

Thanks for listening today!

Its been fun kickin’ useless knowledge your way.

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Just kidding….its me, Zach. Like you couldn’t tell from the picture.