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“Horrible Eggs” Means “Hard-Boiled Eggs” in a Toddler’s Vocabulary, and Cuban Spanish “Friendo un Huevo” Means Sucking Your Teeth in Disapproval

Lisa in Virginia Beach, Virginia, says her daughter Zoe, when she was about three, asked for horrible eggs instead of hard-boiled eggs, and the family still uses that phrase. Kristen in Jacksonville Beach, Florida, says her Cuban-born mother...