Ace entry, both great anecdotes.
Similar to the second one, not worthy of its own post: when I was not quite two, my mum was pushing me in my pram along the Thames towpath. Out of the blue I suddenly said 'Walton-on-Thames', which was the next town over. I don't know if I was just babbling and happened to make the right sounds, or whether I'd heard it somewhere and repeated it.
( Bob Todd whee, Sun 20 Apr 2008, 10:34, Reply)