Miss K♥
May 20 2008, 09:20 AM
This is for a term paper I have to write for my Linguistics class. I was wondering if some of you could help me with this, since I don't have much access to English native speakers in this country =)
If you can remember the very first word you could say when you were a child, please tell me what it was and if you were pronouncing it incorrectly at first (you probably were) please tell me how you pronounced it.
Thanks in advance!
Robb
May 20 2008, 09:52 AM
After ringing my mother (aren't I nice) mine was "all gone" pronounced pretty accurately, but sometimes "Aw gone".
If it helps, the reason why is that when I was eating, once it was finished my mother would always say "All gone". So eventually I started saying it too.
My sisters was "more".
Victoriia
May 20 2008, 10:44 AM
My first word was "Oh dear". I was always being clumsy when I was little, my mother used to always say "oh dear" when I fell over, or coughed.
ex-oh-ex___love
May 20 2008, 01:55 PM
Mine was caca (which is poo in french) or dada (father). Pronounced as it looks. I don't think I'm much help tfor your paper though since I'm french...
still.the.one
May 20 2008, 02:00 PM
Mine was dada, pronounced just how it looks. I said it right the first time and my mom wasn't happy about it because she wanted my first word to be mama.
never too late
May 20 2008, 05:07 PM
As embaressing as it may be, my first word was 'T-itty'. Only because as a child we had new litters of cats constantly.
I had a problems saying my C's & K's & until the fourth grade, All K & C words came out to sound like a T.
At the time it seemed so innocent.
Now you know way too much,

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Dinaynay42
May 20 2008, 05:47 PM
^ha don't worry. I used to call my dog "Farty" instead of "Sparky" because my whole speech was whacked out when I was young. My preschool teacher had to make sure what my dog's name was with my mom because I kept telling her it was Farty lol.
My first word? Daddy. Probably not how it usually sounds, but that was my intention lol.
Lindsey
May 20 2008, 07:26 PM
Not sure what mind was, but Caiden's was "Hi kitty" pronounced clear as day.
Miss K♥
May 21 2008, 03:28 AM
Oooh, thanks everyone for remembering and/or ringing your mothers! =) It's pretty cool to see that there were so many different ones not just daddy or mommy.
And I love yours, Krystal haha!
Step18
May 25 2008, 01:28 PM
Both my parents say it with the utmost certainty that my very first, and favorite, word was "NO".....lol I'm a dork!
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