[Ads-l] Language and children; flee/flea. Was: Antedating of Flea Market

[Margaret Lee]

When my son was 4 or 5 years-old, the TV evening news was reporting that 'guerillas' were invading some foreign country somewhere (can't remember exactly where). Frightened at hearing this, my son ran to me and asked, "Mommy, are the 'gorillas'  coming to get us too?"  He's grown now and still finds the story amusing, though corny.  
--Margaret Lee

 
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 Subject: Re: Language and children; flee/flea. Was: Antedating of Flea Market
   
I recall in 1985, I was sitting in my room working when my landlady's son
(about 4 years old) wandered in to snoop around. He picked something up and
said, "What's this, Wawwen?" I said, "That's a shoe horn."  "Oh." Then he
started blowing through a little hole in the handle.

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