AIBU to find certain cutesy shortening of words slightly vomit inducing

[mumsfretter]

when said in a cutsey voice by a grown adult.

For example narna instead of Banana..

Or ickle instead of little

Did you do doos doos in your nappy nap

Has oo got stinky bot-bots?

"Doggie", "duckie" etc has a purpose - when you end a word with a strong consonant like g or k it tends to fade away a bit (try saying it out loud). If you follow that consonant with a vowel the sound is much clearer and easier to hear. So doggie makes it easy for a small child to hear the "g" sound.

Actually what is even worse is couples cutesy talking together..

I weally uv you.....arghhhh!!!

I loathe 'ickle'.

On the other hand, I call blueberries 'bluebubbles' because it makes DD (17mo) laugh.

Agree that doggy, ducky and birdy are easier the hear than dog, duck and bird. And I like how DD calls birds 'buddies'.

I used baby talk with all three of my DC and use narna all the time- but as a jokey insult, not actually meaning a banana lol.

The only term I cannot bear is...

... Yorkie Puds

Aargh!!

Though I can't say it affects day to day life too much

yes bockle gives me the rage, totes

BUT

I do say 'how many sleeps til' as in how many sleeps til Christmas

"How's Mummy's little solider" I find a very vomit inducing phrase. Blankie is also dreadful as is ickle. I actulaly disklike most baby language

Oh my PIL's do this bollocks. It's so annoying. They'll say things like "ah it's time to go schweepy-bye-byes" instead of "it's time for bed". My mil especially speaks to all my dc's with a permanent speech impediment which does not exists normally.

DH says she used to speak to him like that whenever he was ill even as a teenager. He wasn't sick often surprisingly.

Ickle and bockle are disgusting. Anyone who uses them should be publicly flogged or something.

I say (drumroll)

Narna
Moocow
Kitties
Pups
Dumdum
Bubs
Lil'man
Cutesy wutsey tiddle bum

Ooo
And bockle
Walkies
Beddie byes
Milky
Brekky

I'm with dinosaurscholl

Bring back public flogging for bockle.

let's start a face book petition, you know kind that serves no purpose and you are asked to like 'causes'.

Oh, my mum used to say we're going tats now, bubye as she was leaving

Nowt wrong with bu bye but wtf go tats fgs

Tattars see puffers

No idea where that came from but all my family use it and I now I use it when me and DS go tattars. (I've even got DP saying it!!)

you think thats bad my mum did and still does refer to sheep as wolly woe woes! WTF!

Although I do call DS2's dummy a 'nun night', DS1 called his a bumbler?!

Yy to only some mushrooms being shrooms!

I do remember driving to work one day and going moo when driving past some cows. On my own.

Mrskeithrichards You just made me laugh out loud

My mum says bockie,bokbok & some other heinous term for bottle. I correct her every time,which is probably unkind but is frankly necessary.

Snap.

Ive said "OH LOOK! An aeroplane!" Excitedly when I was with my best mate and my kids were at home. Cringe.

I like and use liberally:

Jimmies
Stubbies
Narna
Go'bless and ni-night
'Shrooms (down wiv yoof, yo)
Chookie egg
Puppers
Choccy
Din-dins
Punkin

I'm also guilty of random word bastardization/foreign fusion words/obsolete elongation such as:

Break-the-Fast
Lunchtopia/luncheon
Schoolio /Place of Education
Parambulatrix
Panekkoek
Biblio (library)
Frosty beverage/soft drink
Feminine hygiene product
Blue jeans (this makes me pee my pants)
Flesh wound for any type of cut, scratch, bruise etc.

Bockle and Ickle should be punishable by death. WRONG, I tell you!

I hate ''bokkle'' and ''hospikkle'' what the fuck is wrong with people???

I have to confess though that i do have a few of my own...

Dumdums
Narna
napnaps (nappy)
sockywocks (socks)
schoolywhooleys (school)
Cartoonies

and one of my kids is called Charlie and his official nickname is ''Charlie chippy choppy woppys - doo doo dee''

I think my children will be scarred for life.

See I didn't even get all enthusiastic and say look ds a cow, I just went moo!

Donnies are hands, BlueStock.

It's a localism, sounds woeful.

Think it originated from the French for "to give".