The other day Ana and I were doing her practice for Knowledge Bowl (she just joined and is doing great--it's like a trivia contest for elementary kids, they compete with other districts). One of the questions involved the definition of a word ending in -cide. I explained that suffix means "to kill". I gave her some examples. Homocide--to kill another human. Suicide--to kill yourself. Paricide--to kill your parents. Genocide--to kill a group of humans. And fratricide--to kill your brother.
She smiled.
And then we heard from the other room: "YOU'RE NOT GONNA FRATRICIDE ME!"
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