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Selected snippets from a Twitter thread started 2022-09-30.

The Layman's Linguist (LaymansLinguist):

What's your favorite early childhood language """error"""?

From my toddler classes long ago:
• pop pop motorbikle ("Papa's motorcycle")
• wash closh b'gosh (any towel)
• firef*ck (to be yelled at every siren they heard)
• m'cake (how the littlest ones said "Ms Kate")

Leni Morgan She/Her (MorganLeni):

[...]

My favourite was when we were putting her to bed & she asked for her "fluvy"

I said "It's called a duvet"

Totally dead pan serious "Oh I can't say duvet. Night, night mummy"

Followed by "why are you laughing?"

ChrisP (Wordsmithgetxo):

I've posted this before on Twitter, but my favourite is from when my son (now 35) was about 3 & asked my Spanish wife to warm up his dinner "en tucroondas" (literally "in yourcrowave").

That last one was what really grabbed my attention, but the one before it is way to cute to leave out.

[Happy Independence Day to my Cypriot kin!]