2024-09-30
53 分钟You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I'm Grant Barrett.
And I'm Martha Barnett.
We got an email from Whitney Catanio in Providence, Rhode Island.
And the day before she wrote us, her two-year-old daughter,
June, had been playing on the slide in their backyard.
And then June started screaming that there was a bug on the slide.
And Whitney writes, I told her to shoo it away.
The next thing I know, she has her shoe up on the slide.
I laughed so hard.
And in fact, she thought it was so funny that she snapped a photo and she sent us Grant this.
adorable picture of this little curly-haired girl with her shoe up on the slide,
trying to shoe away the bug.
Of course, they are different words, but how does she to know?
She did the best that she could with what she had.
Yeah.
But the shoe away is S-H-O-O, and it's not related to the footwear.
But she is the most adorable child, though.
She looks like a handful.
I know.