What was your babies first words

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Maybe pendants' (sic) corner could be an offshoot of pedants' corner?
The misunderstandings could hang there

DS1's first word was 'ban' (ie banana) apart from Mum, Dad and Teddy. First sentence was: 'x have bapple' DS2's first sentence, when in hospital, was 'Come here nurse!'

Years ago I was studying language acquisition and it was said at the time that “ma” or mam or something similar was a universal attempt at a first word. Hence so many languages with similarities for mum.

Whatever the original intention of the post, it has made me feel terribly guilty as I honestly can’t remember the first words of DD’s 2 and 3, nor DS. DD1’s was ‘a duck’ at 9 months!

We were living in the middle of a Middle Eastern desert when dd1 was very little - dh was building an airport there. At the time, Concorde would pass almost overhead and do its ‘sonic boom’ in what was supposed to be a more or less unpopulated area.

The bang would rattle the windows of our prefab, and DD’s very first words - she was no more than 16 months - were, ‘Goggok BANG!’

There was v little on TV to watch, but the call for prayer would come up at a certain early evening time, with a spectacular mosque all lit up after dark. To dd, because of what she heard from the call to prayer, the mosque was a ‘ba-a-a’.

So we were startled to say the least, when not long afterwards, back home in the U.K. and driving past the church (with a spire) where dh’s parents were married, to see her pointing at the church and saying it was a ‘ba-a-a’! Obviously it looked nothing like the mosque she’d seen on TV!

Friends grandchild’s first word was “google” 🙄

We were stationed in Germany with the armed forces at the end of the 80"s. The IRA were very active at the time and there had been many threats and attacks to the military stationed there. Everyday we had to check for car bombs with a special mirror that had been issued to us so we could check underneath the car. My younger daughter's first FULL sentence was "Shall we check for bombs today mummy?" - she was about 2 years old at the time!

Not his first word but MIL who was babysitting was surprised when he told her Mummy has gone to M...... the 5 syllabled name of the village.

DS1 ball
DD look
DS2 bicbic ( biscuit)
All born in the 90s

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Friends grandchild’s first word was “google” 🙄

My great nieces first word was ipad !

The boys spoke “Eskimo” for a long time, but DD said, “Mummy, will you wipe my face? It’s all porridge-y”.