Give a listen ... Verbal confusion

Mom: Tell me about your day at school.

Little girl: We went outside for a fire drizzle!

So goes the first report of a new and strange weather phenomenon. And certainly not the first innocent misunderstanding experienced by a child or even by an adult. This was in 1956. Back then, Art Linkletter’s show had a segment called “Kids say the darndest things” in which he interviewed children. Its popularity led to a bestselling book by the same title. Kids often say funny things because they mishear, misunderstand, or mispronounce a word or a phrase.

I remember a silly incident in a junior high schoo...