Contributed by Denise

A conversation between the contributor and her fifth-grade daughter:

Daughter: Tad’s house is a dish-level home.
Mother: What’s a “dish-level home”?
D: It’s a small house.
M: Did you mean “hovel”?
D: No, dish-level. I looked it up.
[Pause while Mother thinks about what Daughter could possibly mean.]
M: Oh, did you mean disheveled? That’s a messy house.
D: No, it means small house.
[Conversation ends and is almost forgotten, until a couple days later, when Daughter says this:]
D: Mom, I figured out what the word was that I was trying to remember in the car. It was “bungalow.”