More things they say!

DGD (4) and I were talking about last year's holiday and she asked me if I remembered a particular game. When I told her I did not remember that one she said 'Never mind, Granny. I expect your head is full up of memories of the olden times but I have only got a few years in mine, so I will remember all the new things and you can ask me if you want to remember them'.

Granny23 she sounds like one bright little lady
Mishap love the second quote

DGS (3) "I'm going go tell that rain to go away, cos I want play out there, I do mummy"
Mummy was quiet shocked as his speech isn't great

G23, she's probably right!

This morning I was having my usual struggle to get up off the settee, when little grandson, just 4, held his hand out and said "Hold my hand grandma", bless him.

Getting 6-year old grandson ready for school and checking spelling homework at same time. Granddad asked 'how do you spell train. 'T-r-a-n-e' was the answer. No said granddad 't-r- a-i-n'. Of said grandson I thought it was a split diagraph

I remember one New Year's Eve we were waiting to 'see the new year in', and was later asked by my very young daughter what the new year looked like!

Nanadog you really made me laugh out loud this morning. I love it. There is a bright child with a great imagination who will go far! "A split diagraph" Hurrah for children's minds.

wisewoman I'm still chuckling after dropping him at school.

Also very funny but very profound print what will the new year look like this time?

I love the comments particulary "dont look at me" but can someone enlighten me about a split diagraph. My brain is not working this morning.

A digraph is a sound written down made up of two letters, such as sh or th, or in this case ai or a-e.
The sound ai in train is a digraph. The same sound can be split as in pane, the e making it an ai sound, instead of an a sound.
Hope this makes sense.
When we learned to read and write, we were never taught the correct names for this until we were studying language in high school.
So the kid was wrong but he used the right terminology.
My grandson would never get that wrong, because he plays train simulators so much on the computer.

When he was 6 my nephew came home from school and announced "I had sex at school today!" Looking round at our shocked faces he explained. He'd had "seconds" (secs), meaning a second helping of pudding. What a relief!

Actually the kid was right jen he thought train was spelled trane, and a-e is a split diagraph, as you pointed out.
What do they teach them at school? we used to call it the magic E rule.

Oops...digraph not diagraph nanadog

grannybags reminds me of when I was teaching and I heard one boy say to another "just write 'sex' that will do".
I leaned over to see what was going on and he was writing 'secs'' .... instead of seconds and 'mins' instead of minutes.

DS1 (now 34) used to refer to a particular high street store as "Marks & 'Spensive"

Thanks JenD i am a little bit the wiser now. I don't thing such things as digraphs were invented when I went to school, we just wrote them without knowing what they were.

I think I may have posted this elsewhere but it still makes me smile. DS came running into the kitchen he had been listening to the radio. ''Mummy'', he said,''It's Shakespeare's birthday can we go to his party?'' DD, who at 6, was two years older said,'' Don't be silly, it's much too far!''

Thanks, Nellie, glad to be of some help.
Jodi, I meant he was wrong with the spelling although right with the sound.
Using terminology like that makes it easier for teachers to write their interminable reports, I think. It was hard enough to get them to use verbs, adjectives and nouns, without explaining digraphs and morphemes, etc.
When I was at college, I remember doing an assignment on using ITA, the initial teaching alphabet, one sound one symbol, invented by Pitman, I think.
So there would be no problem with mixing up ai or a-e, they would all be spelt the same.
My eldest son learnt to read that way. Then, of course, you had to learn to read the traditional way.

When GD was about 3/4 we bought her a play golf set....Granddad was giving the instructions on how to stand and strike the ball etc...and he said "Keep your eye on the ball" ...she picked the ball up and held it on her eye....Memories ..

My DGD2 (3rs) is still giggling about 'Winnie the Pooh' ... "It sounds a bit like ' we need a poo'".. she laughed to herself for ages! She does suffer from glue ear!

Us to 7 year old GD. "Be careful coming down the stairs."
GD:"It's OK, I'm holding on to the barrister".
Phew! That should be OK with Injuries 'R Us.

DGD1 has taken to making up her own jokes some of which are excrutiating really bad but I thought this was quite clever -

DGD - Granny what happens on the first day of September?

ME - That's easy, it is your Birthday.

DGD - And what happens on the last day of September?

ME - after much puzzling 'I have no idea'.

DGD - Oh you do know Granny, you were singing it yesterday.
The big ship sails on the Eely, Ally Oh, on the last day of September

Had to read that twice mamie before I got it!
grannyk you walked into that one.

GS age 6 'nana what do you say to a knight when he's going to bed'
Nana 'I don't know what do you say?'
GS 'night, night, knight'

He made that one up too.

When GS3 was about 3 he stayed with us overnight because his older brother had fallen off his bike and had to be taken to hospital with a broken arm.

Wanting to spoil him, I cooked his favourite roast chicken. As he was tucking in he said, 'Is this the same chicken we had last time I was here or is it a new one?'