Mr. Pope, That Ain't No Good English!

Several years ago, I spent a year teaching school... one day, a young girl we'll call "Sally" informed me in front of the entire class that I had broken some grammar rule and thus shouted, "Mr. Pope, that ain't no good english!"

I was so shocked by the intense incorrectness of her comment that I was speechless. Despite trying to figure out what I had said that caused her to call me out, I couldn't even get my mind around what she had said and how to begin to correct her grammatically foul utterance.

But, it got me thinking... how many times have I declared another's fault when my transgressions were worse?