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Just curious to whether on average the first spoken words for babies are limited to "mommy or daddy"
because i think babies are actually more capable than their parents think.

My first spoken wasnt mom or dad or word, it was "what that" . My mom said i used to point and cry and she understood thats what i was asking.
So later it turned into "what is that" after correction . And to my parent's disappointment my first recognition word was STILL not them.

It was "dog!" as i point at dog under a car lol.

Mine was p0wnage.

My Mom insists it was "borscht".

Green Blow Fly wrote:Mine was p0wnage.

You.........RGS... Seriousely what was it?

It was the F-word. I had two sisters and a brother much older than me, and they were EVIL! I passed it down to a particularly irritating kid next door, made the family move.

My first word was bottle. Followed by now. I didn't say mom or dad until a few months after I had started spitting out random words.

I grew up next to a pinball alley. What can I say?

G

I think "toy". I guess I didn't start speaking till I was 3 or so. What can I say I had my priorities straight.

My first word was billy, and that was the name of my cat. Amazing how i learnt my cats name before my parents.

I'm hoping my son's first word is either "boobs" or "moo". They're connected and both would be funny.

I really don't know.

Parents are dead, so can't ask them.
Grandparents are more deader.

I'm older than my siblings.

A mate's first words were "F***in' volkswagen!" (his dad was a mechanic for VW).

My mother tells me my first word was 'Wriwl', a badly spoken version of my brother's friend's name (Will).

My first word was "boofwah," which meant "breakfast."

I'm told my first word was "No", followed by "mama" and "daddy".

Funny though. I rarely say no, call my mother by her first name (since I was 12), and I can't even recall calling my father anything but 'father'.

You call your mother by her first name? Interesting...

Hordini wrote:You call your mother by her first name? Interesting...

Yeah.

We've been more friends than a mother to a son for a majority of my life. But I'm white, from the suburbs and generally affluent so go figure. It probably has a lot more to do with her alcoholism (or alcololism as I like to say) than anything else though.

I have a friend who calls his parents by their first names. It's more because they just never bothered with the whole mummy and daddy thing.

My dad got really angry when I called him dad. I always called him dada and he was fine with it. He said the former was too American.

My first word was ohmygodthezr1isthemostbadasscarevermadeinthehistoryoftheworldeventhoughithasn'tbeenmadeyetWHOOPCHANG!
actually it was just WHOOPCHANG! but i just used context to infer the rest.

kids first word tends to b "NO" since thats the most heard word by them

The reason most parents say that a kids first words are "mom" or "dad" is because those are the first sounds a baby learns to make. They may say "dadadada" just playing around and the parent will immediately take it for "Dad" in their excitement that their child finally talked. This, however, is incorrect.

My first word was Aunt. Because my Aunt bet my family she could get me to say it before I said Mom or Dad.

Dreadwinter wrote:
My first word was Aunt. Because my Aunt bet my family she could get me to say it before I said Mom or Dad.

I lol'd. Your aunt must be pretty awesome.

She is a swell lady.

Zook.

Trying to say a friend's name, Luke.

sA

I had no friends until I was six. Then I went for another four years without friends because I moved schools.

My first word was "no." Followed by "juice." Followed by silence until I could speak in complete sentences.

My mate James insists (as does his own mother) that he didn't speak a word for the first five years of his life.

His parents were worried that he was mentally deficient, took him to doctors etc but were turned away with a fine, healthy child.
At her wit's end, James' mum says "Oh James, why don't you talk?"

He immediately replies with "Because I've never had anything to talk about before."

That's it. His first words right there. I really doubt the authenticity of this story, but I think it's a great anecdote.

My first words were D6, Hurricane Kick and Optimus Pwime.

My first word was "Fart"

This had nothing to do with passing wind, it was what I called the Smurfs cartoon.

Would sit on the floor shouting "FART!" every time the show came on.

Apparently my first words were fox and hound, a name of a pub that my parents went to...




...I probably should be concerned.

Maybe it came from watching the Disney movie?

I don't know about my first word, I need to ask my parents for that one.
Though here's another funny anecdote. My family and me recently watched some old home-made movies my father made. The usual stuff, vacation, family, baby steps. So there was this one moment, I must've been 2 years tops, probably younger, when my father was walking around the room testing his new camera. Then he came to me, and the little me pointed at the my father filming and said "idiod". I have no idea where I got that from, but it's hilarious everytime I see it.