Tine Andersen wrote:

"K.B." wrote in message
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"Chookie" wrote in message
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OSPAM (Naomi Pardue) wrote:

(Sorry, but this is a real peeve of mine... why must people refer to
them as
'boobs' and 'tits', rather than 'breasts?' Doesn't exactly help with
the
acceptance factor...)

Dunno about your part of the world, but here, we all have boobs. We
only
have
breasts at the doctor's.

It's called 'Mum-Mum-milk' by the consumer at our house, and he thinks
the
vending machines are called 'Mum-Mums'.

I will agree with you that 'tit' is very unattractive, but 'boob' has a
nice
rounded sort of look and sound...


I think Booby is fine. I can't imagine a child saying "I want your tit".
People would definitely stare. All my kids call it a booby or bubby to the
baby. It's just like saying poopy, or pee pee for penis, or chi chi for
pacifier, or nuny for night night. The are all more appropriate for kids.
Kris

Do you also say tju-tju for train, moo-moo for cow and honk-honk for car?

And how long do you continue with the baby words?

I forbid my MIL to tell my daughter that a dog was a bow-wow and a cat a
kitty. I like the right words - the ones that sound neutral in your specific
surroundings. (Luckily I have the courage to forbid her certain things and
be sure she respects (or rather: does as I say) them)

I agree with you, Tine, though I'm ok wtih puppy and kitty (but then, our cat
was Kitty for 20+ years, and that's how I call a generic cat to come
(kittykittykitty) so I don't view it as a baby word. Teaching a kid to say
"wow-wow" for a dog is just odd, imo. Why not teach "dog"?? (tju-tju is a neat
spelling, btw....I'd have expected Choo-choo!)
WHY can't a child say penis?? In fact, it's MORE appropriate to teach correct
body parts.
Chichi? Nuny? oooookay. Those mean NOTHING to anyone outside of immediate
family. They're family words, I guess, but not English. I don't think they're
*more* appropriate than teaching the child to say "night night".

But then, correct spoken language is important to me in daily life anyhow.
YMMV, I suppose.

Dawn

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