Choc choc

[Whychocchoc]

Went on a day out the other day and I heard so many references to choc choc.

Why is this a thing I I wonder? We don’t say crisp crisp or lolly lolly - where has choc choc come from?

I've never heard it called that. I've heard people say " choccy" to kids though.

I've never heard choc choc

Are you sure it wasn't chop chop to hurry you along?

I’ve heard it plenty - yes, context meant chop chop would make no sense.

Where on earth were you? I’ve never heard this except maybe a parent calling it choccy to a child.

What do you mean ‘where on earth were you?’

Thanks to my sister this is now what my kids call hot chocolate 🙄 no idea where she got it from though!

"crisp crisp" - you just made me laugh!

Asked my daughter and she says she heard a three year old say "choc choc" once.

It made me think of my worst phrase in the world, "nom nom" (to describe pleasure in eating food). Nobody make the sound "nom" as they eat.

"Yum" is also bad, but less so.

My dad's wife used to say it to my dd when she was little (along with a truckload of other ridiculous words/phrases).

Made my teeth itch.

I have never heard anyone say 'choc choc' for chocolate. I never even baby-talked my own kids, so I would never say anything other than chocolate! (Although I do, rather guiltily and shamefacedly have to admit that I tell my dog that it's 'bickie time' when I give her her dinner.... but she doesn't seem to mind and it hasn't held her vocabulary back at all).

Choc choc has been 'a thing' since I was a little girl & im 54.

There's a name for this 'baby talk' and reasons why it's good, not bad, for babies/young children, but I can't think of the word right now. If anyone's genuinely interested they can Google it, if not you can leave people to get on with their own lives & MYOB.

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motherese

But choc choc struck me as odd because of the repetition. Choc or choccy I get.

One of mine called chocolate choc-choc because they couldn’t say chocolate. We never called it choc-choc. They also used to use repeat phrases like gran-gran for grandad, until they were old enough to get their mouth around it. I’d imagine it’s quite normal for toddlers.

No choc choc but we have ‘tea tea’ in our house.

we have so many tea types and tea tea means good old Yorkshire Tea - not the biscuit tea. Or lady grey..

it’s just a silly joke between me and my youngest (24).

I'm.in my 50s and heard choc vhoc wen I was a kid

Remember both my little ones saying choc choc, it stuck in our vocabulary as a fun thing and if we are desperate for chocolate, it's tradition to say "choc choc in there" whilst pointing at your open mouth😁

We are all adults now!

My nephew did when first saying chocolate (a toddler) and so it became a thing for a litle bit but because it was what he called it. Not that much longer now and no longer a thing! Otherwise never heard it.

I say choccy to my son but not that

My daughter used to call it choc choc because she couldn't quite say chocolate. She's was under 2 at the time. She can say it now but occasionally will say choc choc. Words just stick sometimes.

Oo I hate it when parents at week say this.

It’s an acceptable term if coming from the moth of an under 5 year old.

Anyone older? No. Awful.

I know afew people who say this (I'm from the north if that makes any difference).
The HV said my particular area of the country has children with poorest vocabulary. They advised against shortening words like this even if the child says it incorrectly/shortens it. The best way for them to learn speech is to hear the word said correctly each time.

I did a dissertation on motherese. The use of made-up words to replace words isn't a part of motherese. (By 'repetition' the article means the repetition of words (maybe changing the sentence a little) to reinforce meaning, not saying the same part of a word twice.)

Choc choc is very common. My family who are from Lancashire always use it when talking to babies and children. Never choccy. Is that more of a southern term?

I know but that’s what the PP was referring to, I’m fairly sure anyway.