Oct 30 2007
Kid’s Words
I was about to write about this, but Mumsgather beats me first! In her post today, she shared with us how her kids made new vocabs.
On top of her kids’ “onner” (switch) and “moredest” (most), I’d also like to share with you a new word created by Ian.
Few days ago when I drove him under a highway flyover, he thought it was the monorail. I corrected him and told him that is a highway, is for cars, hence he cannot see train on it.
Few minutes later, he asked me, “Mama, where is the shortway?”
As there was a delay, I didn’t see the linkage. I asked him what he meant by that, and he said:
“Neh, the train goes on a shortway like that like that” (with hands gesture)
After a few seconds only it registered. He took ’short’ as the opposite of ‘high’. So, if cars use ‘highway’, the train uses ’shortway’, i.e. railway!
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