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"?

It's a substitute booby. Therefore tit. Although I think tit is crude it is correct I suppose

Horrible expression.
If my toddler had asked where his titty was I would have shuddered.

I've never heard that before. When I was wee it was my dodo. Stunned to discover as an adult that dodo is not a universal term for it.

I thought it sounded quite funny when the old Asian woman inthe local shop said in a broad Glasgow accent " Missus you're wean's drapped it's titty"

Heard of dummy tit/teat, but never heard it called a tit on it's own in all of my Glaswegian years.

Makes complete sense jaggythistle. No excuses needed.

GlesgaRocket. Perhaps I'm from a rougher part of town.

Ah you bunch of delicate flowers shuddering away at such a vulgar word.

MrsRobertDuvall, my point wasn't about if your toddler suddenly used the word. I meant a word that has been used their whole lives that then then use in a perfectly innocent way (not knowing the word is used for anything else) comes to sound like a normal word. Just like calling it a dodo or whatever, it's just a word to describe their soother so doesn't sound vulgar anymore.

I know what I'm trying to say but I'm not sure anyone else does.

Tittytittchanging. You're right it is usually the older generation that use it but that makes it sound worse somehow.

It would also help if I hadn't made a hash of the middle of my paragraph.

Auto correct just renamed you

OvO I know what you mean but I couldn't bring myself to call it that. I don't even like the word much when it refers to boobs.

I called it a plug
My playpen was a cage
Reins were a lead etc

A sort of two fingers up to certain types of threads on MN/NM etc.

I thought tit was a fairly common expression years ago. It was used for bottle teats as well. I expect it got changed from tit to teat so people didn't get all upset.

It has been a dummy tit in Glasgow, Greenock and the general clydeside area since my parents were kids. It was the norm for my grandparents to say it. It might be seen as crude to people not used to it, but its origins are innocent. And a dummy is a dummy tit, a fake nipple. Language changes. Think about it, how many people go around calling babies gay these days?

I've never heard it called a tit or titty.
Mine was called a Dodie and my kids were called Binki's as no one here knew what a dodie was.
I had no idea Dodie was Irish, I'm from Wales.

I prefer the term gobstopper.

That's right, FannyFifer. I'm Irish - it's a dodie

As oVo said, when toddlers say 'I want my titty' it can sound cute. Dummy tit or titty here in Glasgow, never gave it much thought re being yuk. I loved the way it took over half my ds's face My father called it the talker stopper.

i think it is quite an annoying word to me too. i think i must associate it with rather vulgar people.

I was in the car with my XH once and we drove through an area he knew quite well. He pointed out a factory that made rubber tits and I completely balked - what? breast implants? From that innocuous looking building? Half an hour later, when his laughter had subsided, he explained that they made moulded rubber shapes for dummies and feed bottles

We were in the midlands, he was from the London/Midlands area. Have never heard anybody else use that phrase round here though!

Just to be really awkward I don't like the word dummy. Gives eejits the opportunity to be all smug and wanky about them as you clearly using them to shut your child up. If not a titty I call them a soother as I do think most people use them to soothe a cranky/upset baby, so primarily for their happiness. Just the peace and quiet they bring to our ears is a bonus.

I don't know if it is a case of language changing because my wee gran is 94 and always says she doesn't know when a teat became a tit, so pretty sure that teat is the correct and original term.

OvO so sorry I typed your lovely name all wrong

Jaggy, I'm terribly vulgar so you're spot on.

My sister recently said to me I was, "a fucking delicate flower," (in a loving sisterly way of course) when I complained about something recently and I've enjoyed insulting people with the phrase since.