Today my daughter and me were dropping off a package at the UPS store. When we got back in the car she said, “Mass and Age. That’s a compound word.”. I didn’t catch this at first and asked her to repeat it. She said, “Like how old i am. My age And mass. that’s a compound word.”
I looked over to see the word “Massage” over a business in the strip mall. My daughter is 5 in August.
I explained how clever that was. And that she was right to see those two words, but it was actually 1 word with two syllables.
A Better Father 