Easy Mistake For A 10 Year Old?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-35354061
The 2 words do sound similar!

[retrocop]

Just noticed that the 10 year old boy's cousin had to do the interview although his parents are reported to be angry.I wonder why the parents,themselves,did not speak directly to the BBC. Can they speak English themselves?? Just a thought. Might explain why the vocabulary mistake was made.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, but it needs investigating as kids also pick up things from home

[Old_Geezer]

Wish there was a synopsis to each link post.
Yes terrace and terrorist do sound similar. I can believe a 10 year old could mistake one for the other. But given the seriousness of the meaning it is right it was investigated. Hopefully tactfully.

[Sqad]

If he didn't know the difference before, he certainly knows it now, a mistake that he probably will never make again.

Of course it needed investigating.

[fiction-factory]

Reminds me of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YM9Ereg2Zo

[ummmm]

Lol FF...

[jim360]

There's investigating and there's investigating -- what was wrong with, say, asking the child gently what he meant, rather than opening straight up with a police interview?

It's overzealous, to say the least.

[Prudie]

Did he actually spell the word terrorist correctly? Anyway, tough times need tough measures.

[fiction-factory]

It's probably on the list of words for the KS2 SATS, Prudie

[jim360]

IS it really justified, though? Anyway, must daesh off, got to go see ISIS, the boat race there's getting really Syrias. Iran all the way there yesterday too...

[sandyRoe]

Would any terrorist call themselves that? If the teacher had asked the child to explain what they meant there would have been no need to take it any further.

[Ric.ror]

According to the Today programme this morning the real trigger here was the claim that the childs uncle regularly beat him - not the confussion over the word