Words

Old Eli does a lot of reading.  And he learns a lot from his reading- such as the fact that there are two words for cake in French- and he picks up a lot of new vocabulary through his books.  And then he starts using the words around the house.  Only he doesn't always pronounce them quite correctly, having only seen them in print.  There have been quite a few of these instances, but I've never gotten around to writing them down because it's hard to get his mispronunciations down in writing.  And now I've forgotten most of them.  But there are two that stick in my mind.  After doing a little nonfiction reading at school learning about early humanoids (or hominids or something....) he was telling me about how interesting he found the 'netherandals'.  NOT the Neanderthals.  The Nether-andals.  Like these people came from the land of Nether.  It took me the longest time to figure out what he was talking about.  Now everytime he has a new mispronunciation, we just say something like, "Oh, and what did the netherandals think about this?"  His latest was that he had been reading about a person who was an 'inso-maniac' and how horrible it must be to not be able to sleep and how the word fit so well.  We agreed.  I just wonder what percentage of netherandals were inso-maniacs.