When out daughter was about 2 or 3 years old, she went to a pumpkin patch with some friends. She came home with this huge pumpkin. I asked where she got it and she said she won it. I asked her how and she said she guessed how many labels it was and she came the closest and she won.
I was a bit confused and asked her again, and she told me she guessed how many tables it was and she won the pumpkin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The friends had a pamphlet advertising the pumpkin patch and one of the attractions was to guess the weight of this big pumpkin \u2014 the one guessing closest, in pounds, would win the pumpkin. When I looked at the brochure, it said, \u201cGuess the weight \u2014 closest guess to the No. of lbs. wins the pumpkin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I figured out where the \u201clabels\u201d came from \u2014 but when I tried to explain to Kelly (2 or 3 years old) that lbs. was the abbreviation for pounds, she looked at me like I was stupid and just went on about her business like 2 or 3 year olds do.\u00a0
I didn\u2019t try to explain to her that the abbreviation \u201clb.\u201d comes from the Latin word for pound, \u201clibra.\u201d
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When out daughter was about 2 or 3 years old, she went to a pumpkin patch with some friends. She came home with this huge pumpkin. I asked where she got it and she said she won it. I asked … Continue reading