Saturday, February 28, 2009

A Gem of a story

Simon is into gems at the moment. He's very interested in what gems are used in what ways (and very disappointed at the relatively gem-free nature of my jewelry collection. He's not even sure it should be called "jewelry," it being rather free of what we might call "jewels.").

This morning, he was reading a story about King Solomon's crown and cross-checking the mentioned gems in his gem encyclopedia, just to read up on their various properties.

He looked up at one point, quite perturbed.

Simon: "what words are capitalized?"
Me: "names, places, important things like that."
Simon: "Well. Not all important things."
Me: ?
Simon: "I think names of gems should be capitalized. Gems are very important."

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