Kids and grown ups alike will often get the words tangled or substitute the wrong word. I think language is learned so fast our mouth just can’t keep up. Grown up’s minds are racing and we just can’t noun sometimes.
My husband once was discussing ancestry with me and replaced ancestors with Grandsisters. My brother was trying to remember the hot stuff he uses on Sushi and finally blurted out, ”You know! Kimosabi!” The word he was searching for…Wasabi!
Kids do it best!
“Who buddy bought, my new brand boots?”
“ I banged my headfor!”
“Look at all the flutterbys!”
The ones with a story, Make my heart race a little bit! My son was outside and saw our neighbours son out in his yard. He asked me if he could play with him. Not noticing him out there in his fenced in yard, I told my son maybe another time when he was outside. He said, ” No, hims outside! See him! Over there in him’s cage!”
My daughter was awful for her observation’s and just blurting out things. Telling me to look at that fat lady, who was very pregnant. No really it was bad, her third year I almost left her home…so embarrassing all the time! She blurted enough things that left me mortified!
I find myself still reverting to some of my childhood words
Snowmadoo=skidoo or snowmobile
Butcept=Except
and I have to really practice saying abdomen… I usually end up with abydobanem or some variation.
Somewhere I have written down all the cuteness and mortifying things. When my oldest went to University, I sent her with a notebook. At the top of each page I wrote family little sayings and memories, like she would forget us or something! Anyways, for me, important stuff!
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