Forget all the billy-goat, nanny-goat jokes (heard them all), or even HERD them all - & the rest!) I can understand why youngsters say Mum & Dad (i'ts the 1st sounds they can make) but why do we call them kids?
2007-03-01 10:38:35 · 6 answers · asked by funnygirl 4 in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
it's just a saying that parents use my grandma used to say it about my mum and my mum uses the saying on us and now my sister says it about her daughter. i believe it's a saying that will never die it will just go through the generations.
2007-03-01 10:46:49 · answer #1 · answered by Gilly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to ask the same question when I was younger. Hearing that word in reference to children annoyed the heck out of me at one time.
But then I started learning about semantics and semasiology and just let I go. Hell, I use the term myself now!
2007-03-01 10:51:54 · answer #2 · answered by Leroy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why only I did and now they are grown up I say adult children and I'm a Nannie, well that's how I spell it and you can also get cards with Nannie on them.
2007-03-01 11:30:01 · answer #3 · answered by Bernie c 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont really like the word kid..i prefer to say children,it sounds much nicer saying "how are the children" then hows the kids"
i have used the word "kid" now and again..mostly when typing but prefer "children" much more...dont know why??
2007-03-01 10:52:47 · answer #4 · answered by yummy_mummy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that short opposes both long ("short walk") and tall ("short girl"): English is a weird language.
2007-03-01 10:51:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right.
I correct them all the time.
But there are times when the word "kids" is appropriate to use.
2007-03-01 10:43:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋