The use of bubs, bubz, lil' one etc

[NarkedRaspberry]

IT'S A BABY

CALL IT A BABY

I hate, HATE when baby boys are only referred to as lil man...eurgh.

Ur totes right hun, it's proper annoying, I'd never call my ickle princess 'bubz', how annoying!!!! Xxxx

I wouldn't use those words but if others want to thats fine

A woman at the school gates said to my then 2week old DS "Hello sexy boy" urgh

You can call them Gerald the Mighty Destroyer offline, but on here please call them babies. Or we'll get tickers. And sparkles.

And bubba
WTF?

Ick at 'sexy'.

Yanbu. Yuck. Equally "hubby"

I call DS little sausage pot.

I know what you mean

I think it's the young 'uns that do the whole babba bubba preggo thing. I am an old gimmer not 'down with' the next generation's language and it all sounds a bit weird to me.

Oh god. I am of the 'older generation'. That's depressing.

hecate I am one of those young'un's and those words make my teeth itch. Methinks its a cultural (or lack thereof) thing

I find them handy when I can't remember the baby's name, much friendlier to say "how's the little man" rather than "how's the baby?"

YANBU

I hate just baby as well - as in "How is baby?"

NO. It's "How is THE baby?"

YANBU

I'll add in use of The Baby when the CHILD in question is 4 and half.

Meh. My DS was little man, sausage, monkey and Og. Each to their own!

Find it odd though how one friend refers to her niece as "the baby", now 18 months old, never by her name!

Not so bothered about bubs etc but it makes my skin crawl when people insist on calling little girls princesses - why???

Along with hubs, hubby, hub, they make me livid. Fuck knows why.

yuk yuk yuk.
I have a friend who only ever seems to refer to her DD as little lady.
Never my daughter, baby, little girl.
Even little princess would be preferable now, just for a change!

Hubby and preggers are awful.
Preggers is the worst.

Can I also add 'spesh' for special? It was in one of DS's picture books recently. I had to get rid of the book because it offended my eyes.

Agree 100%. Awful. Hate bubba especially with a passion. I'm 18 weeks pregnant and SICK of people asking how 'Bubba' is...eugh!

Well. I probably wouldn't.

But isn't this just sort of short-handed snobbery?

Meh, I call ds little man & bubby boo so shoot me-he loves it & laughs away Used to call dd my little lady too & oh shit dh is even reffered to as hubby amongst other not so polite names Me thinks you have pretty empty lives to be arsed about such a trivial thing........

I call DS little man sometimes and little fecker under my breath very very occasionally