Not quite...

In a recent lesson, I was teaching the various forms of accommodation that exist, eg semi-detached house, flat, mansion and we came to the word bungalow. One of my students piped up 'Oh yes, that's where Saddam Hussein was hiding out, wasn't it'. Visions of the former dictator padding out in his comfy slippers and towelling dressing gown in the morning to collect the paper left on the porch of his flower clad bungalow filled my mind. A far cry from the dishevelled figure we all remember being dragged out of the hole in the ground he was hiding in. I tried to correct her but she was insistent. "Don't you mean 'bunker'", I suggested. She stopped suddenly, realising that in fact this was the word she had been confusing bungalow with. "Er yes" she replied meekly but we all had a good laugh about it anyway.