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July 20, 2025 9:09 am
A Vermont caller has been told that when she was a young child, she had imaginary friends named Hooney and Dedilae. How do children choose names for their imaginary friends? As Marjorie Taylor and Naomi Aguiar show in their book Imaginary Friends and the People Who Create Them (Bookshop|Amazon) there’s no one way that children come up with those names. They might use the names of relatives, or invent names using wordplay, or simply cobble together rhyming or otherwise pleasing sounds. This is part of a complete episode.