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"?

Re Ally Bally my mum used to since this verse:
Oor wee Jeanie wis awfie thin
All rickety bones covered o'er wi skin
But noo she's got a wee double chin
Fae eating counters candy

lol pumpkin candy does make weans clarty!

i think there's a verse missing there...

our wee (child's name) is awfy awfy thin
a rackle of bones covered owr wae skin
wae eatin coulter's candy!

Yours sounds like the sanitised version!

My friend's flat mate got a serious burn off a deep fried creme egg!

ooops missed a line there...
noo she's got a wee double chin
wae eatin coulter candy

How does the flinging pieces song go?

cant believe anyone else knows ally bally bee song :)

You missed out, hairy. We will be going to see singing kettle as soon as DS is old enough to sit through it. He's already been subjected to some DVDs and youtube videos.

oo a 3rd verse. i only ever knew the first one growing up and only heard the 2nd the other week, when DS2 got a cd from the bookbug thing.

Oh ye cannae fling a piece fae a 20 storey flat, da da da da something bairns will testify tae that

Clearly i can't remember.

hairy poppins, the singing kettle is great!

lovely songs such as

I choked on a tattie...a plate of tattie soup

where apparently the doctor told the child he/she was dying ....
because of the tattie soup!

Oh you cannae fling pieces fae a 20 storey flat
700 hungry means will testify to that.

i have never heard a dummy being called a tit, although i have seen it mentioned on mnet that it is just a fake tit and they should use the real thing

my 20mth old has a dummy, we call it a 'num num' and when my dad is visiting he calls it a dodo. meh whatever.

To be fair, Ally Bally is a bit forrin for us, being NE Scotland and all. I just learned it from the interweb then doric-ised it. Which is probably why my version is different to all of yours.

My mammy used to sing Ally Bally to me when I was wee. She couldn't sing for toffee tablet, bless her, but the thought was there. (cue teeny violin)

700 hungry weans! I remember more now :)

oh ye canny fling pieces out a something story flat

x thousand hungry weans will testify to that

something about the breed being plain or pan?

Ooooh, Doric. Meikle, mukkil, quine!

If it's butter cheese or jeely
If yer bread is plain or pan
The odds against it reaching earth
Is 99 ti wan

wee willie winkie
runnin through the toon
up the stairs and doon the stairs in his night goon
looking through the windaes
peekin through the locks
are all the children in their bed
it's past eight o'clock!

Oor wee schools the best wee school
The best wee school in Glesga
The only thing that's wi it
Is the badly heid maister
He goes to the pub on Saturday night
He goes to church on Sunday
To pray to god
To tie him strength
To batter a' the means on Monday.

DS1 loves to hear new songs but might be a bit trying to work that one.

current favourites are Ally Bally and 'Hakuma Natata' i

Weans even

Bloke who wrote Wee Willie Winkie lived just up the road from where I am now. Think there's a plaque inscribed to him somewhere nearby.