St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Albany, NY

She was baffled by the fact that it sounded like it starts with a w. I explained sometimes it's like that in English, a letter we think should be there isn't or one that we don't expect is there. She considered that and then she asked, what does the word mean? When I told her that it was the word for the number one, an amazed look came across her face and a fire of recognition sort of blazed up behind her eyes and she said to me, oh, wow. I thought there must be words behind numbers.