I have a confession:  I read dictionaries….for fun.  I LOVE words.  My favourite movie is Pride & Prejudice.  Yes, I do enjoy the storyline, the costumes, and the scenery.  But I am totally captivated by the language!  I find myself quoting it more and more.  The use of the English language on this particular movie is so amazing, and then there’s my, and my general acquaintances’, use of the English language.  Kind of like comparing a menu consisting of dishes by the top chefs of the world to the $1.39 menu from Wendy’s.  Adequate, but that’s all (Add to that the fact that I spend most of my waking hours with five children under eight, and I hear myself saying, more often than I’m happy to admit, words like boogers, poop, and owies.  A compound sentence for me most likely sounds like this, “Luke, stop pulling the dog’s tail, and Brett, would you please go put some clothes on?!).  Do I speak English?  “Aye, and very ill, indeed!”

So you can imagine that when something like this shows up, I’m going to be checking the site out more than once. I think it’s fantastic that they are tackling two big issues - literacy and world hunger - in such a manner.

Now I have to go figure out how many grains of rice fit into one eight ounce cup….