Bilingual fruit

I’ve written before about pronunciation, and recently I was reading an alphabet book to Lily. An alphabet book of food. We were on the B’s, beans, beets, and…

“Bi-yana!”

Like her sister and am-blee-ance, Lily is very consistent in her mispronunciation of the yellow Cavendish. Has done that since early in her language career.

Biyana

“Bee, bee. bee, boo.”

She was getting silly.

“Bah-nana! Ha-ha! That’s Spanish.”

I couldn’t believe it. She got it right.

“How do you say banana in English?” I asked hopefully.

She looked at me, gave her impish smile and said, “Bi-yana.”