If you’re not yet old enough to understand homophones, you can wind up with some funny misunderstandings. Martha shares a listener’s story about avoiding cotton candy as a child, fearing that it was literally made of cotton. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Cotton Candy Homophone”
On an earlier show, we were talking about childhood misunderstandings.
Like when you’re little and you think a cat burglar is going to come steal your cat, that kind of thing.
We got a lot of responses from folks on that.
Libby in Fort Worth, Texas, called us to say that when she was a child, she would never eat cotton candy because she thought it was made out of cotton.
And she thought, well, there must be some people who can eat cotton candy and digest it, but I can’t, so she never ate cotton candy.
Still doesn’t to this day.
Poor thing. She’s missing out.
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