"Hosanna in the hIghest" as understood by a four-year-old girl

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Here's another example of a child misunderstanding something in adult speech.  It was past along to me yesterday by the four-year-old girl's great-grandmother.  The girl recently returned from Sunday school proudly telling her mother what she had learned that day: "Obama in the highest."

Gerald Cohen

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