Saturday, 3 November 2007

Not the Queen's English

My mother has always scoffed at people using cutesy-wootsie, itsie bitsie, bubbie language to infants and young kids. Well, wouldn't she be ashamed of me....

I don't know how it happened, but young Jimmy thinks that 'boogadie' is a term of excitement, 'chickie and whaka chickie' - a general greeting and 'phrrrrrrr' - a euphemism for isn't this brilliant!

I'm not proud of these developments, but I'm not overly concerned either. If Jimmy is still saying these 'words' when he's six, I can always say that he speaks Swahili and that he's actually a childhood genius...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I speak Swahili to Jonny all the time!