“Butterfly.”
“B-U-T-F-L-Y.”
“That spells butfly.”
“Butfly!” she says, bursting into hysterics. “Butfly!”
It takes her about a minute to settle down.
“Now, how do you spell butterfly?”
“B-U-T-F… wait… B-U-T-E-R-F-L-Y!”
“Close. You spell butter with two T’s, so you need to spell butterfly with two T’s.”
“Butfly!”
“Uh… Esmeralda?”
“B-U-T-T-E-R-F-L-Y, right?”
“Very good! How about difficult?”
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