We were wandering round Morrisons today getting stuff for a picnic; as we walked past the in store bakery Lucie says "I can smell sweet bread". This results in her dad cracking up and saying "trust me you can't." Lucie meant that she could smell a mixture of the bread and cakes that were being made in the bakery but Andy meant that sweetbread which is derived from offal see Wikipedia's page on it for more detail. This is just one of the many instances where my kids have said something which they mean in a completely innocent manner but others are aware of the other interpretations of the word or phrase.
There are other thing is when the kids can't pronounce something properly such as when Lucie was learning to say blackcurrant and it came out as "black cunt". Holly used to call ships "shits". My children are not alone everyone has done this at some point or other, whether that be when they are learning to talk as infants or when learning another language, for example when learning Swedish I was attempting to say I enjoy learning languages except I used the wrong word for enjoy, so it made no sense and the word I used was actually means lust (in a sexual context).
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