We’ve encountered a strange phenomenon with our little Chatty Cathy (not sure what the boy version would be… Chatty Chester?) In any case, words that were perfectly pronounced in the beginning, have transformed, sometimes in dramatically (and potentially offensive) ways.
A sampling of the vocabulary metamorphosis:
ball -> baseball -> balls (now always plural)
doggie -> goggie
cookie -> kooky (long o’s)
chicken -> cheeken (Maybe influenced by his Spanish speaking teachers?)
yummy -> nummy
ducky -> cocky
kee kat -> tee tat
dada -> da-ya -> grandma -> damn-a (this means both grandma & granddad)
truck -> f*@k
That last one is becoming increasingly problematic… as someone now likes to yell it at the top of his lungs at every passing vehicle.
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