Thursday, April 14, 2011

Setri's vocabulary at 12 months

It struck me just now that it's very odd that Setri has all these words, yet he isn't yet saying 'bye bye' (which we use a lot)... he just waves! This isn't an exhaustive list. I've tried, but not only am I sleep deprived, he uses a lot of 'words'... I'm sure I'll think of more, but this is a good snapshot of where Setri's vocabulary is at 1 year of age. He doesn't always use his words in the most sophisticated way. Until a couple of weeks ago, for example, his first resort was to always point at an object he wanted and say 'more' to indicate that he wanted it. Even now he rarely uses the word 'want' ("Wan'"), and when he does, it's usually to say something like "Bubbuhw. Wan' more", rather than "Wan' bubbuhw'. He's more likely still to just say "More. More bubbuhw".


People:

Mama
Daddy
Nan-ma/Mam-ma (Grandma)
Vfeh-Vfeh (Feifei, Xiaoxiao)
Ba(d)ba(d) = Bad Chicken (one of our 2 chickens)
Rover (Grover from Sesame Street)
Elmo (from Sesame Street)
My-muh (Jemima the doll from Playschool)
Bubba (as often as not, 'babeh' these days)


Body parts:

Beh-buh (belly button, also now penis and nipples referred to as beh-buh, despite our best efforts. He once said 'nih-nih' for nipples when we corrected him, but then went back to calling them 'belly button' again!)
Boob
Ear
Eye-lath
Eye-bra
Lair (hair)
Mole
Oh (toe)



Bodily functions:

Barp (burp)
Neh (sneeze- he made this one up himself and now says it any time someone sneezes)
Var (fart)


Vehicles/machines:

Bye/Moh-bye (bike, motor-bike)
Buh (bus)
Dig-dig (digger)
Lawnmower
Van



Descriptive/instructive/verbs:

Ba-ba (with an 'a' sound slightly less nasal than the one he uses for 'bin'... pretty much like the 'a' sound in 'bang-bang', which is what he's trying to say)
Boo (blue)
Dair (there)
Dah dah (dance dance- I *think* he also says 'dah-di' for 'dancing')
Dat (that)
Dot-dot (dot
Dow/down (down)
Duck (stuck)
Lau-lau (round round)
Mammack (smack smack- he thinks it's a game to wave his bottom in the air and have it 'smacked'- you can tell he's not a child who's been spanked!)
More
No (no)
Oh' ('O' as in 'open', followed by a strange glottal stop)
Ow (out)
Uh (up)
Wan' (want)
Yeah (yeah/yes)



Animals:

Bar (bear)
Ber (bird)
Buhbuh (butterfly)
Dog
Duck (duck)
'Og (frog)



Food:

Ba-ba (basil, also pesto, probably because my mum refers to it as 'basil')
Bro' (with some kind of glottal stop rather than an actual 'ck' sound)(broccoli)
Deet (date)
Dew (juice)
Dough (dough, pastry, also the KitchenAid that makes the dough)
Lala (lasagne)
Lehleh (lemon, lettuce and other leafy greens)
Main (pronounced like the French word) = mint
Muh-muh (mushroom)
Nah-nuh (banana)
Nehneh (nectarine, or peaches/plums/any stonefruit vaguely resembling nectarine)
Poon (prune)




Other objects

Bain (pronounced like the French for 'bath')(bin)
Bohboh (with the 'o' sounding like the 'o' in 'bother')(bottle)
Boo' (book, without the 'k' sound)
Boo/Uh-boo (boot/ugg-boot)
Bowl (bowls, small buckets, large cups)
Bra
Broo (broom)
Bruh (brush)
Bubbuhw (bubble)
Buh (button)
Dirt
Dot-dot (dot)
Door
Lau/Lau-uh (flower)
Lah-le (glasses,sunglasses)
Laht (light)
Lollo (wallet)
Na-na (nappy)
Nano (piano)
Nin-na (ninja)
'Owel (towel)
'Ower (shower)
Pboo (spoon)
Weh-bah (wheelbarrow)

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