I was chatting to a few parents after a Perform class this week, when one of the children came running up to me; very excitedly:
“Lucy, Lucy – I’ve got a massive brew – do you want to see?”
Amused and somewhat intrigued I said yes, of course. He rolled up the leg of his tracksuit bottoms to proudly display a very large bruise.
“Wow” I said “That really is massive, but you know it’s called a bruise, not a brew.”
“No” he said “I’ve only got one of them!”
Fabulous, eh? It’s hard to argue with logic like that – anything with an ‘s’ sound is plural :)
It got us talking about the other funny things children say – ranging from the cute to the cringe-worthy: