Peter's Blog

My daughter likes to watch Big Cook Little Cook a program that works on many levels. It leaves me wondering why:

• the big cook calls the little cook 'small' not 'little'.
• the big cook is never referred to as the 'large' cook.
• whether the terms 'little' and 'large' are interchangable with 'small' and 'big'
• why the english language would have duplicate words for the whole size concept.

Maybe Little and Large still have some kind of copyright on the phrase?