Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Mobile Mispronunciation

For quite some time now, our little guy has called my mobile phone a "cellophone." I had interpreted this mispronunciation as a cross with cellophane (and have spelled it just now accordingly).

It was recently that it occurred to me that he likely has no idea what cellophane is and that he probably wasn't confusing those two words. I thought a little harder about it, and--pop!--I made what I think is the right connection.

It's a rhyming thing, and a different spelling will make it clear. He associates a "celephone" with the "telephone," as any intelligent person would.

So now I'm going to start a campaign to rename the technology. Want to sign on?

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