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If you want to hear some truly creative takes on the English language, look to the children in your life. Kids have talent for coming up with entertaining descriptors and malapropisms that are arguably better than the correct terms.
We asked members of the HuffPost Parents Facebook community to share the funny names their kids have for various things, and received an overwhelming number of responses. Read on for a hilarious sample.
1. “My 5-year-old says she wants
‘Happy Donald’s’ every time I ask her what she would like for dinner. We have all started to call McDonald’s ‘Happy Donald’s.’” ― Saundrice Thompson
â Terence McKenna - famed ethnobotanist, psychonaut, and author
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Darren Harpdaddy Smith
My fascination with fungi was rooted in my early childhood. There was nothing more natural or healing to me than to take a walk through the woods with my friend and mentor Michael Pendrak. He taught me how to identify trees, plants, and fungi from keys; along with their nutritional and medicinal uses. My experience with psilocybin mushrooms spans four decades. My obsessive research on the medicinal and societal benefits of these sacred medicines prompted me to start writing articles in the Anchorage Press last year in the hopes of destigmatizing hese entheogens. Â