The Words He Uses

I have always been fascinated by the words Brandon chooses to use. He never progressed in the natural order in learning language. I remember his first speech therapist remarking on it when he was only 2 years old. Back then it was that he started with saying "I" instead of "me" or "mine". For most kids, "I" is the last one children use. More recently it the use of "adorable" instead of "cute". Generally it is the more complex word that he chooses. This morning was no exception. We were going over his list of reading words. Some of them are names. Brandon was trying to explain that he knew 2 Ben's. One is in his reader book at school. The other rides his bus. He was telling me that Quinn was his best friend and Ben was his "foe". He went on the say that Ben was his "arch enemy". I don't know what I expected him to say, but that was not it.