Escalator! Avocado! Hallelujah!

[dr_pretentious]

Gareth has been collecting four-syllable words over the past two weeks, and expanding old four-syllable words he'd been contracting by adding the dropped phonemes back in.

Avocado used to be ataaahdo, and now I kind of miss feeding him ataaahdos. Dan and I have to entice our mysteriously underweight child to eat, which we have been known to do by praising avocados to the tune of the Hallelujah Chorus. Avocado! Hallelujah! L is a late-arriving phoneme for most children, so Gareth used to drop the second syllable of that word, too. Hallelujah is not an important word to me, but I do miss calling Gareth honeybunny and having him respond with ha'bunny.

His pride at being able to say escalator was so vast--almost as vast as his wonder at riding an escalator for the first time.

Comments

[jasminewind.livejournal.com]

Isn't it fascinating to watch humans acquire language!

Yogurt used to be wo-wuk for D and for some reason we taught him the proper pronunciation. Fortunately, breakfast remains bre-fuk. It probably helps that we all mis-pronounce it now and then, just to encourage him! :-)

[shakti-lemaris.livejournal.com]

My godson used to say "boof-ti-tu" for beautiful. He's 13 now, so it's been a while.

[temporus.livejournal.com]

My son used to call brussels sprouts "russel runts". My wife forbade me from correcting him on that one, because she thought it too cute.

[violet-moon25.livejournal.com]

My 3 year old still mispronounces a few sounds but he is mostly hard to understand because he talks quickly, constantly somewhat randomly. But I think it will be a while before I am nostalgic about the baby talk. Now if we could just cut down the backtalk I'd be happy ;-)

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I ended up getting speech therapy for the talking too fast problem. Even as late as fourth grade, I had some phonemes that were giving me trouble. My mother was very concerned early on when the school assigned me to a speech therapist with a thick Mississippi accent neither she nor I could parse.

The backtalk, I never got over. :)

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

wonderful.