Outof the mouths of babes

MY THREE-YEAR-OLD grandson, Sam, saw some baby ducks while out with his mother one day. ‘Look, mum — puppy ducks,’ he exclaimed excitedly. my daughter explained to Sam that baby ducks are actually called ducklings. ‘Does that mean that puppies are really doglings?’ Sam asked her.

Pauline Claridge, Chipping Norton, Oxon.