Verbal Dyslexia

This is a Laney story. I think I've written before about her “verbal dyslexia” when she was learning to speak. There were several words that she turned inside out. This may be her Semitic heritage coming through. For example, “cursomel” was commercial; keekoo was cookie. You get the idea.

Once she was out in the back yard playing and she came to the back door saying there was a “kinchen” in the yard. Kinchen was how she said chicken. Well, I was pretty sure there wasn't a kinchen in the back yard. But she insisted and got fairly annoyed at us. Finally, Lenore went outside and had Laney show her.

Sure enough, it wasn't a kinchen. But, there was a deceased baby quail that looked a lot like a baby chick. It took awhile for Laney to forgive our mistrust in her. “See, there was a kinchen in the yard!”