Sometimes the child gets a wrong idea of a word which it has picked up by chance, and attaches to it a meaning which impairs its usefulness--but this does not happen as often as one might expect it would.

Indeed, it happens with an infrequency which may be regarded as remarkable.

As a child, Susy had good fortune with her large words, and she employed many of them.

She made no more than her fair share of mistakes.

Once when she thought something very funny was going to happen (but it didn't), she was racked and torn with laughter, by anticipation.