Word: parrotings
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...Millie's misnomers made literal in Mathieu's drawings. One depicts a perplexed primate who finds himself serving as filler in a "gorilla cheese sandwich"; another shows the indignant weasel on whom the kids happily daub their paintings. As the school day ends, the kids have a snack of parrot sticks and quackers, then say butterfly and get on the octopus to ride home. Cox, herself a kindergarten teacher, knows that more than contusion reigns when 4- and 5-year-olds are teased into sorting out sound-alike words. In fact, if you recognize how much verbal comprehension is conveyed...
...soft days of Cambridge autumn, it’s not entirely unusual to hear birds just above the heaving and clanking of trucks on JFK Street—but this bird was not cooing at me from my window. It was as if I had literally bedded a cranky parrot, or kept a menagerie in my pillow...
...Kirkland, living through the fire door doesn’t necessarily mean living next door—Parrot Boy resided in the next entryway over, so he was just another random Housemate, one of those people you see occasionally in the dining hall, but never in the stairwell...
While my relationship with Parrot Boy never progressed beyond muttering my sympathies for his bird and his girlfriend, the fact that the boy through the other fire door in my room lived in the same entryway offered more opportunities for interaction. Our door refused to stay shut—which proved useful on the frequent occasions that I locked myself out and went sheepishly next door to gain access to my room. Establishing a relationship with the person through the fire door, even if it’s just one of convenience, makes the inevitable eavesdropping a bit less absurd...
When it comes down to it, after all, Ashlee doesn’t sound much better than a sick parrot anyway...