umbilical cord

14:43 Dec 27, 2010 

It is very easy to press the wrong button, but it is also quite easy to put your mistake right.

You (and only you, the Asker, can do this) just have to put in a Support Request and ask for the change to be made.
Alternatively contact the Moderator and they will help you.

08:34 Dec 27, 2010 

I apologise sincerely. In a hurry over the Christmas, I simply pressed the wrong button.

I apologise to everyone affected

19:43 Dec 26, 2010 

if your pal went for "baby chord" (sic) why does a different answer get the points?

17:36 Dec 21, 2010 

I agree with Kimberlee; I've never heard a kiddy version of "umbilical cord."

16:34 Dec 21, 2010 

It would depend on the rest of the text. Perhaps the child has heard her mother (or someone else) use the term. Perhaps someone has previously explained to her why everyone has a belly button and used the term... Perhaps she heard it on TV. Obviously she has heard about the concept someplace. No one says she pronounces it correctly; perhaps she even says something like "um-belly cord"... or "mum-belly cord"...?

13:31 Dec 21, 2010 

I would leave it as umbilical cord. It saves a lot of argument later on. Tummy button does not include the cord.

13:25 Dec 21, 2010 

I can imagine a young child explaining it in more (but shorter) words, e.g. it's the string that came out of her tummy button

13:23 Dec 21, 2010 

just that. I can't remember growing up hearing anything but "belly button" for the hole and "umbilical cord" for what it really is. Moreover, can't seem to find a reference for anything but that either...

13:12 Dec 21, 2010 

Something using tummy-button, I think; though when I was this age, we were protected from such unsavoury topics, and I would never have even known what one was until I was older, and could master 'umbilical cord' anyway!

I wanted to say 'tummy-button tube', but I doubt a child would appreciate that it is in fact a tube at all.

Poor Jack, fancy your never having heard 'tummy button'! — I wonder if it's a generation thing, or regional, or maybe class...? I know that my parents always considered the child's word 'tummy' to be acceptable, but 'belly' was considerd coarse / vulgar and reserved for meat...

13:12 Dec 21, 2010 

;-)

13:11 Dec 21, 2010 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical_cord