Mrs Allen is absolutely correct in her observation. Well I think the real issue is Mrs Granger's reaction to a harmless little experiment with language. It was Mrs Granger who actually gave him the information that he needed to invent a new word and to encourage its spread through the school. Discovering that it was not up to the dictionary publishers to decide what words meant, Mrs Granger's statement about the origin of words lit a fire in Nick and gave him the idea to create a new word himself and to stipulate its meaning. What started out as a time-waster question from Nick elicited this answer from Mrs Granger that ultimately changed his life. We all agree.īut if all of us in this room decided to call that creature something else, and if everyone else did too, then that's what it would be called, and one day it would be written in the dictionary that way. You and me and everyone in this class and this school and this town and this state and this country. Who says dog means dog? You do, Nicholas.
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