Native Swenglish

Observations on the language development of my children. Native English mother, Native Swedish Father. Home language: English, school language: Swedish.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

church berries

Our cherry tree is currently doing its best to develop and ripen its second season of church berries. Well, that's what X calls them.

In Swedish it's called "körsbär" which sounds like "shurshbear". However if you misunderstand the pronunciation in Swedish, as a child can, it sounds like "shirksbear" (kyrksbär), which directly translated becomes: church berry.

Our Church Berry tree commemorates a number of memorable life's moments:
  1. The birth of X
  2. The birth of K
  3. 10 years of marriage
  4. Our new home
We have a lot riding on that tree. Not a bad thing if it inspires some divine protection.
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