My granddaughter, 8, was asking about the music coming from over the backyard fence. She at first said, ’the music next door’, then, realizing that meant at the side of, switched to looking for across the fence but wound up with ’across door’, with a giggle.
So she recognized her neologism, but it got me to wondering how much credit linguists give kids for innovating in language.
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