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When daughter no. 1 started at primary school, she came home very excited one day, announcing that they had been doing grammar. "This . is a full stop, and this ' is a topostopee." It has stuck ever since.
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Middle daughter came home from junior school announcing very excitedly that "a psychopath came to see Adam today"
Further investigation revealed that it was actually a psychotherapist who had come to see Adam
On reflection we decided that this was only marginally less scary than the first alternative.
Further investigation revealed that it was actually a psychotherapist who had come to see Adam
On reflection we decided that this was only marginally less scary than the first alternative.
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Or the little boy who read the sign on the school office door 'bursar/secretary' as bizarre secretary. And the little girl who had to see the doctor because she had a bazooka on her foot (verucca).
Catherine Standing (Cooper)
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Any idiot can deal with a crisis. It takes a genius to cope with everyday life.
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My children called and ambulance and ambliance, so when I stressed the u it became ambUlance, both of which are now used in our household.
We also have logurt and lellow as No 2 son could not pronounce y. He could but he would go 'y y y logurt'
We also have logurt and lellow as No 2 son could not pronounce y. He could but he would go 'y y y logurt'
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
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I was not going to embarass my self or my children about things they said in the past - just it is enough to let you know that I have a problem with words these days - and when I asked Chris for the Fire engine - he looked at me, seeing I was carrying the iron, guesssed I wanted the Ironing board - it has not been forgotten yet... and probably won't ever be.
Jude Comber (nee Kelynack) 5's 5.38 1975-1980 Herts.
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I do this stuff ALL the time.Euterpe13 wrote:Ah , Jude - I once told my husband to put the whale on the table .... well, of course I meant the books, what else ?
Got tested for dyslexia and there's one test about picture recognition. They show you a page of really simple line drawings, of say:
baby, tree, car, cat, man
dog, shop, girl, house, river
and they even demonstrate it first, you have to say the word for each thing as quickly as you can one after another, they demo it so you know the word they use, you don't have to think, ooh, is it a shop or a store or a building, they've just said "shop".
So I did this test and I was SO bad they stopped me part way through, I just cannot think of the word for something, so just cos of this, I'm now officially dyslexic.
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