Nali: The World According to Student Bloopers
25/11/2012 22:54
The World According to Student Bloopers
Richard Lederer
St. Paul's School
One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student
blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student
bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level. Read
carefully, and you will learn a lot.
The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The
climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cul-
tivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pramids are a
range of mountains between France and Spain.
The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam a...