I taught 3rd grade last year and one of my students asked me, super loud, in the middle of everything, “When are we going to start learning about the SEXES?”
I said, “Learning about what?”
He said, ” You know, the SEXES!”
I said, “Can you tell me more about what you mean?”
He said, “Well, we’ve already learned the twos, threes, fours, and fives, and now it’s time for the sexes!”
Turns out he was asking when we were going to learn the SIXES multiplication table and was mispronouncing the word.
I sure was glad I had asked him for more information. :-)