oh my goodness harvard undergraduates are scary. they bring laptops to class and when you falter they immediately look things up on the online oed (so much for the benefits of wireless classrooms) and correct your etymologising. supercilious little beasts, as harriet would have said!

it being the penultimate old english class, we had coffee and doughnuts. doughnut, the class decided, shall henceforth be known as dag-hnutu. erm.