AIBU?
Sound/word to note someone is being a bit naughty?
happytoseeyou · 21/04/2021 08:45
My DS picked up and started playing with something we had left on the table (a unit from our shower - it stopped working so we had taken it out to get a replacement).
Its already broken so it doesn't matter but to note he was doing something he shouldn't, I reverted to my childhood noise / warning of "Av-ees", said in a low drawn out voice, my DH then said "Ahh-mer" in the same style.
AIBU to ask what you said as a kid (to another kid) to note someone was being a bit naughty? Is it a regional thing or does it change through the years?
Does this sound even happen today? My DS looked completely blank, as DH & I were giggling and saying our word over and over.
traumaticconversations · 21/04/2021 09:01
[quote happytoseeyou]@traumaticconversations - thank goodness you understand what I was trying to say .... exactly that.[/quote]
It’s funny, I haven’t thought of that in a very long time - but suddenly remember it being said quite often in nursery/primary and I think brownies as well . Usually when teacher had left the classroom!
AliasGrape · 21/04/2021 09:01
Do you mean as in what you’d say as children to other children OP?
I think as a child we’d just say ‘ahhhhh you’re gonna get DONE’ or ‘ahhhh I’m telling’.
At a school I worked at for years though the children used to say ‘ah ba ba baaaah bah’ when one of their peers had done something naughty. There’s was a member of staff caller, eg Mrs Farquhar (not real name) so sometimes it would be extended to ‘ah ba ba baaah bah I’m telling Mrs Farquhar.
I don’t work there anymore but still have friends who were colleagues there and we still say it to each other, as in ‘ah ba ba baah ba did you eat the last biscuit?’
UhtredRagnarson · 21/04/2021 09:08
There is no point using words that your child doesn't understand.
Unclench! OP is not saying she plans to use this sound to her child. She’s saying she did probably because she just got a blast from the past and it just came to her tongue instinctively. And then her husband caught the reference and did the same. They shared a moment of nostalgic humour.
Faircastle · 21/04/2021 09:08
I know what you mean, OP.
It's sound you made as a child at primary school, if the child sitting next to you deliberately broke a crayon or wrote a mildly rude word on their work.
I grew up in the SE of England and it was "Ummmmmmmmm!"
DH grew up in the West Country and it was "Ummmmmaaaaah"
But both with exactly the same intonation.
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