IN MY English-as-a-second-language class, I was explaining the difference between a watch and a clock. I told the students that when it was a large timepiece on a wall and not attached to your body, it was called a clock. When it was worn on your body, it was called a watch. A few days later we had a power outage, and our classroom clocks had not been reset. I asked Luis, who was wearing a wristwatch, for the time. Luis looked at his wrist, and then confidently announced, "It is exactly ten o'watch." How do you convince foreign students that English isn't a strange language? -- Contributed to Reader's Digest "All In a Day's Work" by Dolores A. Foley

-- Anonymous, July 26, 2001