D is for Discorrect?

This last week we’ve been tending my cousins while their parents went to Italy. It’s been a lot of fun, but it has also made me grateful that children only come one at a time (at least usually). Going from one child to seven children overnight has been an interesting stretch. The kids have been great, but they have a lot going on. And they are quite the bunch. Sammy, the youngest, is a hoot all by himself. He’s in kindergarten, so we get to spend the whole afternoon with him. But Sammy is not your typical five-year old. He is a bundle of energy and creativity, extremely verbal and a barrel of laughs. Take today, for example. We were driving to the zoo and Sammy was playing with a rubber band in the back seat, twisting it around his fingers to make different patterns and shapes. After a while, he made what almost looked like the letter “D.” Here is the dialogue that followed:

Sam: Look! I made a “D” with my rubber band.

Anna: What starts with “D”? (Editor’s note: Remember that Sam is in Kindergarten so this should be a pretty typical question. The answer we expected was something like dog, or maybe donut.)

Sam: Discorrect.

Anna: Discorrect?

Sam: Yeah discorrect . . . or uncorrect . . .

Justin: Or incorrect?

Sam: Yeah, or basically, “you’re wrong."

Anna was driving at the time and it was all she could do to stay on the road because she was laughing so hard. What five-year old comes up with “discorrect” as the first word that starts with “D”? Suspending the fact that “disconnect” may not be a word, or at least a typical, dictionarified word, I was pretty amazed that he was able to go from “discorrect” to “uncorrect” to (with a little help) “incorrect” and then was able to explain what all of those words meant, or would mean if they were words. So, here’s my question: if you could add a word to the English language, what would it be?