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What is my DD saying?

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itsonlysubterfuge · 27/08/2013 08:22

I have been trying for days to figure out what my DD's new word is. I thought maybe some of you may have an idea. All the other words she uses are quite clear to me, but this one I'm struggling with. The word she is using is Gome, or Gome-a, rhyming with home. It's driving me nuts. I will probably never be the wiser, being a parent is so difficult Wink.

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kelda · 27/08/2013 08:23

How old is she? What does she watch on TV?

Can she point to it, or draw it, or sign it?

nilbyname · 27/08/2013 08:27

What she pointing to, looking at when she says it? What's the context??

neontetra · 27/08/2013 08:34

My 16 month old dd was saying "kappa-gove" for ages, which she sometimes abbreviated to "gove". Eventually it clarified into "there you go" (mostly used when giving us something, but, like all her words and phrases, sometimes just said randomly for fun!). Could it be this?

InternationalPower · 27/08/2013 08:37

Grandma? Mind you, could be something completely different. My ds1's name for his grandad was "Is". We never did work out why.

AFishWithoutABicycle · 27/08/2013 08:38

Come?

LizzyDay · 27/08/2013 08:43

Gone?

CreatureRetorts · 27/08/2013 08:43

Go home?

itsonlysubterfuge · 27/08/2013 08:53

Some examples are:

DD: "book"
Me: "Go and get a book and I'll read it"
DD: "Book. Gome-a"

DD: shoving something into my mouth "Gome-a" I thought she was saying, go mouth.

DD: pointing at my computer "Go-mama." She wanted something next to my computer.

Now she is just walking around saying it. I think she might be trying to get my attention and she is actually saying Go Mama. I don't know. Maybe it's just a word she likes the sound of so she keeps repeating it?

She is 13 months so she can't draw it, she isn't signing anything while she is saying it. I don't think it's Grandma, she can say Grandma quite clearly, but I did think it might be Grandma.

She watches Handy Manny, In the Night Garden and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

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Tinkerisdead · 27/08/2013 09:00

Could it be her version of "there you go" is sounds like she says it when she wants or receives something.

LizzyDay · 27/08/2013 09:04

Give / give me?

MrsBucketxx · 27/08/2013 09:09

Sound like give me.

Ds said bagon like bacon gor ages turned oug it was dragon.

Its like a whole new language to learn.

BitBewildered · 27/08/2013 09:10

'Come on'?

My DS said 'mim' for ages. I never did find out what it was.

heidihole · 27/08/2013 09:11

I think it's 'there you go' or 'there you go mama'

CatAmongThePigeons · 27/08/2013 09:14

Gone or got it?

absentmindeddooooodles · 27/08/2013 09:19

Gone or there you go. This is how mu ds peonounces gone. Took me bloody ages to work it out!

LizzyDay · 27/08/2013 10:19

Yeah I reckon 'gone'. Could putting something in your mouth be related to 'all gone'? My DD used to wander around saying 'gone' when she couldn't find something.

NeoMaxiZoomDweebie · 27/08/2013 12:41

I thought "gone" but now agree sounds like "there you go"

itsonlysubterfuge · 27/08/2013 12:50

I think it's a combination of words. She has been using it more today and I think it's 'go mouth' and 'go mom'. She had something in her mouth and so we said 'take it out of your mouth' she did and then proceeded to put something else in her mouth and said 'gome-a', which is where the 'go mouth' comes from. I don't think it's 'all gone' we don't really use that phrase. Oh well, it may forever be a mystery, I'll have to keep querying her and she may begin to make it clearer. I will watch her more closely when she wakes up from her afternoon nap, I'm determined to figure it out.

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Thurlow · 27/08/2013 15:13

There you go is quite common. DD said "alello" for ages and I didn't have a clue until a wise MNetter translated it as "there you go". Didn't realise until that was pointed out how often I said "there you go" when I handed her something.

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