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The War of The Words - Wordsmithville High
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Prologue:
In the 21st century, no one would have imagined that grammar-obsessed beings were watching us closely, plotting an invasion, not of worlds, but of "words."

Chapter 1: The Typo-Terror

It all started one Friday evening.
Professor Comma Splice, a former English teacher and "grammar vigilante," noticed something odd.
His inbox, usually full of poorly written emails, was silent.
Then, an email appeared from “GrmrNatn Federation” declaring war:
"The War of the Words has begun.
RSVP ASAP."

Confused, Professor Splice replied,
"IDK what you mean, LOL?"
His inbox was instantly flooded with responses like “OMG, YOU DIDN’T RSVP” and “ARE YOU PREPARED TO BE SUBJUNCTIVELY DESTROYED?”
Then, his screen went black.

A hologram appeared, a towering figure in a red beret introduced himself as General Grammarly of the Grammar Nation Federation, declaring their mission to "eradicate linguistic laziness."

Chapter 2: The Battle of Bold vs. Italics 

In Wordsmithville High School, Mrs. Hyphen-Dash was giving a lecture on “bold versus italics” when Principal Semi Colon announced over the intercom:
“We’re under attack!
The Spellcheckers have breached the firewall!”

Suddenly, an army of Spellcheckers, robotic creatures with oversized red pens, stormed in, ruthlessly correcting typos.

Amid the chaos, Mrs. Hyphen-Dash rallied the students to the library, their safest bet filled with dictionaries, thesauruses, and the sacred *Encyclopedia Britannica*.

Chapter 3: The Alliance of Acronyms
 
Principal Semi Colon, an undercover agent for the Grammar Rebel Movement (GRM), gathered students in the gym.
He announced they needed allies and proposed forming the Alliance of Acronyms (AOA) to combat the invaders.
Students were given acronym identities, like "ASAP" and "OMG," to create distractions and fight back.
The school became a battlefield of abbrevs.

Chapter 4: The Oxford Comma Conundrum
 
General Grammarly planned to use his secret weapon, the Great Oxford Comma Cannon, capable of causing chaos in sentence structure.
“We’ll strike their headquarters with the Oxford Comma Cannon at midnight!” he declared.

Back at the library, Professor Comma Splice and Mrs. Hyphen-Dash devised a plan.
Using an old typewriter dubbed "The Manual Override," they crafted a convoluted sentence to disable the Cannon:
“While he, who was in charge of the committee, ran, she, who was not, sat; nevertheless, they, who were unrelated, attended, despite it all.”

The Cannon malfunctioned and exploded in a burst of ellipses and semicolons.

Chapter 5: The End of the Word as We Know It

With the Cannon destroyed, General Grammarly’s forces retreated, vowing to return.
Principal Semi Colon and Professor Comma Splice celebrated their victory over the grammar snobs with the students, who threw their grammar books into the air in triumph.

Wordsmithville High was saved, but the battle for grammar was far from over.
In the vast universe of infinite words, the fight for perfect grammar continues

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