Me: Hey honey, do you know how to spell "peripheral"?
Jon: (oddly excited) Well, do you know how to spell periphery?
Me: (dumbfounded how that can be considered easier to spell) Ah, no.
Jon: Well then, it starts out with the sufficx "peri" ..
Me: How do you spell that?
Jon: Oh, p-e-r-i, which means "around" and then "phery"..
Me: How do you spell that?!
Jon: Ah, phery, which means "stuff."
Me: (impressed by his Greek) O.K.
Jon: Actually, I don't know what "phery" means...
Me: (now impressed by both his Greek and his ability to make a joke out of correct etymology). That's okay :)
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