Hersies

When my son was about three he liked to play “hersies,” which, for those of you who don’t speak Toddlerese, that’s “horsies.” He would spend hours talking to the stuffed hersies, that he had named himself – Blickitang, Rachael and Victor, among others.

Like so many other mispronunciations I’ve picked up from my kids’ toddler years and held onto far too long, I can’t manage to call equines anything but hersies, still.