wrong words

I'm pretty good at most aspects of Nephew Vocabulary.
(Boys burping at the dinner table should be followed by "scuse" as a child-friendly substitute for "excuse me", the orange-and-black marbles are "tiger marbles", and apparently singing a scale starting from "Lah" and going up is "the tricky song"...)

I do, however, occasionally forget that some of my standard terminology is not what the boys are used to.

Hence Caleb cracking up laughing last night and proclaiming "Auntie Deird, you talk funny!" when I asked him if he needed to "use the loo" rather than "go to the toilet".

What with that, and my periodic slipping into a pseudo-Irish accent last night, I provided much amusement for my nephew...



(In other news - it's Spring! Yay! *dances through blossom-covered trees*)

An Observation

You know...

It occurred to me that, in most post-series fanfics, everyone seems pretty convinced that Buffy will have outlawed Cruciamentum.

Which is fairly reasonable, really.

After all, given Buffy's (and Giles') reactions to Helpless, it makes sense.


But...

Can I just draw your attention - briefly - to Potential?

An episode in which Buffy says that the girls need to know that they can take on a vampire - and then locks them in a crypt with one.


...isn't that, basically, sort of a form of Cruciamentum?