why is a chair called a chair, or a rock called a rock? those are the questions i've been asked a lot lately by my 8 year old and also the questions i remember asking a lot through my life. since the words in our language had to start somewhere in time, they really weren't words at one point. which brings me to my point that any word i say could actually be a word if i say it is...because i would have just made it one. so the next time you react to your child's abhorrent behavior with a word like "crutz!" and someone asks "is that really a word?", you can now reply "yes, i just made it one".
we've been trying to come up with other words to say to replace "oh my gosh", since she sometimes slips and uses a word we don't use because of hearing it often at school. so please leave your comments with funny words we could use in place of that...whether they're real words or not yet.
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