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Old 02-04-2004, 08:54 AM
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When I was an infant my dad had been going through nursing school. It was in my very first talking experience... less than 12 mos (I think )he taught me to point at the appropriate feature while saying "eye, ear, nose, trachea... in there" and run my finger up and down my neck.

The biggest mistake phrase I ever learned was at the age of 2 when I put my hand on my hip and told my mom "ya wanna try and make me?" then realized my folley when as it turns out, she did.

My cousin had the most favorite wrong words that we adapted into everyday language. We were at the park when she started yelling "fee-oh, fee-oh!!" and it was several days later that we realized she meant squirrel. She is now in her 20's and has a kitten named Feo. Another great moment for her was at about age 2 she got really loud (usually yelling) whenever she'd say the word "wire"... it would come out as more of "W-EYE-UH." We didn't realize that the special pronunciation and emphasis had SO ingrained itself into our family until her dad was in his shop doing some kind of manly thing with his manly man friends and he said to one of them "hey, hand me that W-EYE-UH" at which point the power tools stopped, the beer mugs froze in mid air and even the trophie deer head on the wall blinked a couple times to make sure they heard right. They never let him live it down.
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