Austin, I just saw your question...this is pretty interesting. At the time he was not reading yet. I think the issue was that my son had a desire to build big sentences but was still working on some of the finer points of pronunciation...plus he was big for his age so I think people thought he was older and expected a child with a penchant for more complex sentences and of that size to have better pronunciation. He has by now outgrown this, but since we dont use some words in our daily speech, he does run into words which are just not spoken much (abomination is one that I recall) ...he is reading about 2.5 levels above grade, so there is a gap there, but not as huge as someone reading well at age 3 or 4.

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