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From Benita Bendon Campbell, three more One Big Happy strips: on questions, compound nouns, and tense in nouns. And then, as a bonus, four strips on Ruthie’s interpretations of words.

The strips Bonnie sent:

  (#1)

  (#2)

Like many kids, Joe has a penchant for synthetic compounds with second elements in -er.

  (#3)

Then four I came across that have Ruthie’s (re)interpretations of what she hears:

  (#4)

  (#5)

  (#6)

  (#7)

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