What was your babies first words

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

Mt61

Friends grandchild’s first word was “google” 🙄

My great nieces first word was ipad !

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

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.

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!

Friends grandchild’s first word was “google” 🙄

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!

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!

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.

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!'

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

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Nor learned them neither!

Witzend

Just seen elsewhere. 😩

Was that on Mumsnet?

We didnt teach them proper, did we!

You got us going there, Witzend 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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It seemed crystal clear to me. If it had been a genuine question it wouldn’t have been posted in Pedants’ Corner.

Witzend

NotSpaghetti

I think Witzend was telling us what she'd seen elsewhere - not asking us!
That's probably why it's in Pedants’ Corner!

Yes, I certainly should have made it clear that it was for pedants’ corner.

Sorry!

NotSpaghetti

I think Witzend was telling us what she'd seen elsewhere - not asking us!
That's probably why it's in Pedants’ Corner!

Yes, I certainly should have made it clear that it was for pedants’ corner.

Still not clear then. Posters who want to answer the question "What was your baby's first word?" could start a thread in Chat.
The point here is that using poor spelling/grammar often leads to misunderstanding - as we have just seen!

It's not pendants corner BTW 🤣🤣

4 months old, every time I wheeled his pram under the trees he looked up and said Aaoo. Trees were named aaoos from then on.

That’s why we have that useful device “sic”

Greta my thoughts exactly.

Witzend had read the question "what was your babies first words"(sic) somewhere. I didn't think she wanted posters to answer the question. She had reacted to a poorly constructed question and that's why she posted it in Pedants' Corner.
Or have I missed something here?