to think that calling a baby's dummy a tit or a titty is yuk?

[MotherOfNations]

I don't know if this is a u.k wide thing but here in Glasgow so many people call a baby's dummy a tit or titty. It sounds vile .I used to hate it when my little ones had dummies and some old man would bend over the Pram and say " awww baby are you sucking your tit"?

YANBU! Yuck!

Never heard of this, but a teat on a bottle is also a nipple so maybe it is like that? But slightly cruder

Have never, ever heard it called that

Suppose if everyone there does it then it's not so bad.

Round here you'd get looked at like this .

I've heard of it being called this, but I thought it was American.

YANBU, it's awful

My dad (from Greenock) used to call them a 'dummy tit', but never just 'tit' on it's own. That was reserved for people who didn't indicate

I call it that!

I never did it in public because it does sound horrible. It's all my dads fault - he calls it that I 'caught' it from him.

I'm from Edinburgh so maybe a Scottish thing?

I suppose theoretically they're right, but it's not something that should be brought up in polite company really

Ha thats funny, lots of people call it that where i live (angus) but it tends to be the older generation. Im happy calling it a sookie dum or dum dum :)

Dummy tit is sometimes used here.

Suppose it just described what it is.

Yes, a Scottish thing I think! My MIL calls it a titty and I cringe every time. She does correct herself now though to dummy.

Dummy is short for "dummy tit" and is just a nipple replacement anyway...

Then surely it's a dummy teat and not tit. Tit just seems so crude.

You are so entirely and most completely reasonable

Always been a dummy tit round these parts. Horrid expression for a horrid thing.

Titty is even worse

It does start to sound lovely and innocent once you start using it. When your toddler asks where his titty is it only sound nice. We're all just used to hearing it in the context of some arse shouting show us yer tits, iykwim.

I know you don't believe me and think it would always sound yuk.

Never heard that before. It's horrible.

My mums american friend calls dummies 'pippies' for eg he said to DD 'Aww hey there DD, you got your pippy there?'

i think I've heard dummy tit/teat somewhere over the years, but never tit on it's own!

i suppose it's the other side of the coin of people claiming that bf babies are using their mummy as a dummy.

My MIL calls it a plug, for eg 'plug the baby up!'

Yip OvO you're right. I'll never get used to hearing it.

My MIL calls it a plug, for eg 'plug the baby up!' :o

Dodie is what most of my Irish friends and family say.

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