A Charlotte, North Carolina, shares her granddaughter’s adorable misunderstanding of a word. When a breeze was blowing, the little girl would say it’s winding (rhyming more or less with “wending” rather than “minding”). This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Winding, Rhyming with Wending not Minding”
(instrumental music) We heard from Linda Helms in Charlotte, North Carolina who wrote, “When my granddaughter was little, she used a word that I love and still use. When the wind was blowing, she would say, ‘It’s winding, Ma.'”
(laughs)
How sweet is that? (laughs) It’s winding.
It’s winding. It’s not winding. It’s winding.
(laughs) Yeah.
The wind… Yeah.
Yeah. Take that noun and turn it into a verb.
Sure.
That happens a lot.
A little bit of gerund action there.
(laughs)
It’s… For some reason, it seems purer to me, and there’s something about a word coming from a child that strips it of all the pretense, right?
Exactly. Exactly. It makes you look at it all over again.
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