My daughter (20 months) and I were walking around the block while I was home for lunch today. Excited to spot an ant scurrying along the sidewalk, she let out a squeal of glee and started pointing.
“Yeah, that’s an ant, Sweetie.”
“No,” she says. “BUG!”
We always use “ant” to refer to my sister and my sisters-in-law as part of “aunt so-and-so” (after marrying an Iowan, I had to give up my my Minnesotan/rural/British pronunciation of the word).
I wonder what other homonyms are going to take her a while to get used to.
A wise choice of pronunciation. While both options are acceptable, you live in Iowa now, my friend.