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Busketti

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From the time my kids started to talk, I worked very carefully with them on pronunciation. If they mispronounced a word, I would slowly enunciate it and then have them repeat each syllable after me.

One day I was in the grocery store with my three-year-old son. As we were entering the pasta aisle, he apparently decided he could teach ME something. He looked up at me and said,

"Mom, can you say buhhh-sskett-teee?"

I thought the woman at the other end of the aisle was going to pee her pants.
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