On a (somewhat) related note... --- One of the pleasures of having children around the age they start discovering language is that it exposes certain ambiguities that our brains have simply tuned out. Some months ago I asked my daughter, then a few months shy of two years of age, "Can you please go call the lift?" thinking that she would press the button. Instead she stepped out into the hallway and called out "Lift!" which I found hilarious.

Source author: André Xuereb andre.xuereb@um.edu.mt