What's a good text for a tenth grade English student, in terms of discussing symbolism?

The Glass Menagerie.

Ooh, good one, Tep. I wanted to stay away from Heart of Darkness or the aforementioned Hester Prynne.

Name is Igor.

"Eee-gor, right?"
"No, it's pronounced 'Eye-gor'."
"But they told me it was 'Eee-gor'."
"Well, they were wrong, weren't they?"

"What hump?"

"Well, why isn't it "Froaderick Fronkensteen"?"

Here's to a speedy recovery Drew. Gives universe the stinkeye

Sorry to hear about the chimney leakage, Msbelle, but glad to hear about Mac's progress.

I'm at lunch and I overheard someone use the word 'pram'. She didn't have a British accent. Do Americans use that word or is it just a UK thing?

Timelies!

I've got a quorum of parents here and that means good things and bad. RSI pain is still high, dammit. Bday is tomorrow so I'll probably do some food planning even though it is a perishingly small gathering. I was planning on baking the cake in the solar oven but this overcast weather will not allow that.

In other news, OK Cupid has blogged another of its data crunching things - this time about keywords/phrases used by people of the same (self-selected) race. [link]

tommyrot, it's generally a British thing but individual Americans can be Anglophiles and pick up and use Britishisms at will.

I would use pram if I were talking about one of these:

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It's a subset of stroller, not a synonym.