in finding this hilarious!

[TastesLikePanda]

...inspiration from the 'Mickey Mouse degree' thread...

Good friend of DH came over today with his 2yo DS - played and talked for a bit then I offered them a snack but did that 'mum' thing of spelling the word out so that the little boy wouldn't know what I was asking incase his dad didn't want him to have one.

Conversation goes -
me 'Would your DS like a c-o-o-k-i-e?'
Friend turns to DS and asks him 'Would you like some cake?'
LOL!
Plus good friend is halfway though PHD!!! Now wouldn't you assume that someone doing a PHD would know how to spell cookie?!

I would hope he misheard! Find it difficult to believe he couldn't spell it

perhaps he disliked the use of the word cookie

had you asked me I would have asked my dds if they wanted a biscuit

are you american?

I'm not American - but the packet said cookie.
I think they are different - biscuits are hard, cookies are soft and these were definately soft (and lovely and squidgy in the middle yum)
But maybe that's a different debate?!

lol

I find this spelling of words starts getting awfully complicated though! DH and I seem to have whole conversations where whole sentences are spelled out......it's very easy to get confused! Goodness knows how we'll cope once the DDs can spell.......we'll have to invent our own secret language or something!

maybe he felt they went too far to the side of cake in the cake biscuit continuum

i truly wouldn't say cookie
or flashlight
sidewalk
etc

I call dog biscuits cookies because my dog knows the b word....also probably a different debate though .

My bonkers MIL continued to spell things out even when DD1 was at least 8 .

Whenever I spell a word for DH (short ones, nothing complicated!) he instantly gets this blank, slightly panicked expression and just stares at me. It's like his brain just instantly shuts down and can't make sense of the data. He has a degree, I think he must have cheated or something!

When I was a baby my parents used to spell out the word B-O-T-T-L-E in my presence to avoid me kicking up and demanding my bottle.
With the result that I started to refer to my bottle as my Tee-Ell-Ee.

We used to spell out C..H..O..C until we realised that DD knew exactly what we were on about.

One day we stopped at a garage for petrol, as DP went to pay he asked if I wanted anything and DD piped up "Can you buy some A..B..C please".

Dh finds it hard to hear a spelt-out word and know what it is. He tends to go for saying something in complicated language - with the result that my children now ask for the audiovisual entertainment system to be put on.

The worst thing is that since having to practise reading and spelling with the children, I now use the letter sounds to spell out words - I told someone my postcode using phonics pronounciation ...

"had you asked me I would have asked my dds if they wanted a biscuit2

Ditto

also only works until they have phonic knowledge!! Then the dc's could get a degree in flipping well knowing what your talking about when trying to be discreet