Vocab Lesson
My child comes up with his own words. He knows the correct words but he does what he wants with it to make it his own.
Bug=Buggah, Boogah, Buggas (this is plural) or Bugger. It often sounds like bugger, as in this comes from your nose. He is fastenated with bugs.
Up=Uppie. As in pick me up woman, you are my beast of burden. This often starts as just “up”, but quickly becomes uppie repeated very quickly and then it gets louder. And if that doesn’t work, he will start to climb you by lifting his little leg in the air and grabbing at the waist of your pants or your belt.
Shovel=Sha fie, rhythms with pie. This is what you dig with. For a long time he was saying just “fie” and we did not get it. Recently he has added the “sha” and suddenly it all clicks.
Rock=ock. As in I need to go dig in the dirt with my “fie” and find a “ock” for each hand. He used to repeat this like crazy. Can you imagine? Ock Ock Ock Ock Ock Ock Ock Ock Ock Ock. Say it as fast as you can a lot. For like 10 minutes, or all the way home from work in the confined space of your car.
Beverage=Wahjuice. I need some wahjuice in my cup, no I mean your cup. Everything is better if it is from your cup with a little bit of my back wash in it. This is a combination of water and juice, I think that it favors the juice a little bit more though because water is not usually what he wants and he gets upset with me if he wanted juice and I gave him water.
F-word=as in the mother of all swear words. He says this to mean several different words and everytime he says it I think where did he learn this. I really, REALLY don’t say this one. But he says it to mean flag and sometimes also for frog.
I had my own weird word moment the other day. I felt a little like Jessica Simpson. Gentry has this little flag (you may insert appropriate Gentry word) that he got around the 4th of July. He has pretty much destroyed it and I said to jj, “We better throw it a way, it has been deficated.” As soon as I said it I knew it was wrong, but I could not remember the correct word. jj was rolling in laughter and said, “You mean desicrate.” Oh, right. Yeah. That is what I meant. Is this chicken that I have, or is it tuna? It says chicken by the sea on the can.
July 10th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
Don’t you remember when I was pregnant and asked you if you got “post-mordem?” (spelling?) Yeah, that wasn’t a great word moment either.