Miss = Lady

A week or so ago the kids in my classroom took a reading test, and part of the test assessed prefixes and suffixes. On the test the students were given a word that had a prefix, and the were required to write what the base word was as well as the meaning of the whole word. One of those words was "Misspell." Now many of the kids were getting mixed up, and writing the prefix instead of the base word and/or giving the meaning of the prefix instead of the meaning of the whole word. The correct answer should be: Base word-Spell, Meaning-To spell incorrectly. I burst out laughing while grading the tests when I came across one which said: Base word: Miss, Meaning: A lady

 Oh, if only I could give points for making me laugh :)