Oops! Whoops! Whoopsity!

[marsup]

OK so this is a silly title. I did want to start some sensible threads but for some reason have got this bee in my bonnet at the moment: I am trying to learn French babytalk and have discovered that if something falls to the ground (or baby drops it deliberately), when an English-speaker might say 'oops' or 'whoops' or 'whoopsity' (hope it isn't just me saying the latter), a French person would say 'badaboum'! Does anyone know what you would say in other languages?

In german you say oopala - quite close wo whoops really!

"Badaboum" is so cute! That's what Thierry Henri says on the car ad - he can badaboum me any time he likes

Whoopsity eh?

In South London, you say . Generally not to your child though.

My 2yo DD says "whoopsadaisy" - think I have watched Notting Hill in front of her too often. LOL!

I say whoopsadaisy (even when the kids are not around )

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My 3yo says "oopsy doopsy"
I think she picked it up from Hi-5!!

I say "uh oh spaghetti oh" just to hear my little ones repeat it...

dd2(4) has just shouted 'bugger' twice today. I am so ashamed.

My son 3 says whoops a buttercup! His Gran keeps teaching him strange phrases

Sort of on the same lines...Last year when we were in Italy we taught my 10 year old step son how to "swear" in Italian. Only he didn't realize that all the words that we told him were swear words were actually names of all the local islands. I suspect there is a whole slew of young boys in his hometown running around shouting the names of small mediterranean islands at each other.

If DD drops something I say 'pickitup'!!

DS2 says whoopsadaisy too! But I know he hasn't seen Notting Hill......

On the language side, MIL etc (Cypriot) says 'Ooopa' and 'accha' if its dirty. 'scuse spelling but that what they sound like anyway!

I rather like 'whoops a buttercup'. Is 'whoopsity' really just me then? (oh dear...)

ARe you sure Thierry Henri doesn't say 'vavavoum', marthamoo? that is more a sort of car noise. Not sure which ad you mean though - I'm a bit of a tv-culture-loser I'm afraid (I lived without one for so long half of what I see now seems really obscure to me).

I'm from Sarf Landan too,and am with Soupy & Twiglett. But you have to make sure that the vowel used is an A and not a U for authenticity, know what I mean, like?

Dh says it's vavavoum too, marsup. But I think he hits a drum and says "badaboum!"

Interesting about your Cypriot MIL lydialemon, dh is Welsh and says "achavee" with a real spitty ch sound in the middle (huge apologies to all Welsh people, have no idea how to spell it) for something dirty, or unpleasant.

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marthamoo - I've looked it up in a dictionary especially for you. It's "Ych a fi!" It's a really handy phrase and can be used for everything from dog dirt to a hideous hat!

Tiamaria...thankyou !!!!

DD1 (3 yrs) says 'ych a fi' for anything horrible/disgusting (thanks, tiamaria, I had no idea how to spell it until now). DP is Welsh. But DD has no idea she's not talking English when she says it. It's very cute.

marthamoo - You're welcome!

rolymoly - Yes, it's great when they do funny things like that, isn't it?! Do you live in Wales?

No, in the Northeast (of England, that is). But I think all of us have adopted the phrase, it's so expressive