Subpar student

We certainly are getting our money's worth from Ellie's preschool. Tonight she decided to play "school" with me, and since I'm fighting a wicked case of laryngitis and can't speak above a whisper, I got to be the student while she played the teacher. "Teacher Ellie" asked me for the first letter of the word "accessories" and explained to me that those were things that you can wear, like hats and necklaces and socks. She asked me the first letters of several other words, and finally said, "What's the first letter of the word 'xenophile'?" Being only human, I stammered and said, "What?" She repeated herself, and I shook my head and said, "Well, it's either an 'x' or a 'z' - I really don't know." She gave me a look and said, "It starts with an 'x', Mommy." I had to look it up afterward, and darned if she isn't right - it does start with 'x'! I don't know if she knows what it means, because she got tired of playing school at that point. I'm afraid she felt she was dealing with a subpar student!