My daughter is doing a co-op program for high school. She is assistant-teaching a grade 2 class. As part of her duties, she is reading them Roald Dahl's The BFG (Big Friendly Giant). In it, he says that the BFG is "as wide as an ambulator" and neither she nor the teacher knows what the word means. Now I know that an "ambulator" would be something that walks..... and apparently it is also a kind of beetle..... but neither seems right. I suspect it is a British slang for something else.... perhaps an ambulance??
She thinks.... and I agree.... that if she is reading them a story, she should know what all the words mean, but this one has us stumped. Anybody ever heard the word?
