Jackisms

Jack is 5 years old. For at least a year or two, we’ve really enjoyed his version of certain words.

Here are some of them–in use between age 3 and present age 5.5–with some no longer in use:

• Soft Drinks:
  • Root Beard
  • Sprike (Sprite)
• Entertainment:
  • Neck Flicks (Netflix)
• When Someone is Being Unoriginal, re: Lego Building, Paper/Crayon Art Projects, Driveway Gravel Engineering (They have 2 sand boxes, but insist on making all sorts of speed bump-type mounds and canals in the drive):
  • She compied me. (Jack’s 7-yr-old sister is known to use this turn of phrase also)
• Outraged Missives:
  • Jesus Christ! (No idea where he could’ve picked that one up from…[Author looks away])
  • Get this damn baby off the table! (When his 22-mo-old brother stands on the table and uses everyone’s plates as his personal smorgasboard like he’s some Roman emperor at a brothel–taking chips and dipping them inappropriately in side dishes, fingering entrees; Dinner Table Riverdancing Coyote Ugly-style when everyone is way too sober for such fare, etc.)

• National Fast Food Chains:
  • Old MacDonald’s (Gramma took us to Old MacDonald’s)
•  Dishes:
  • Genical Chicken (General’s Chicken)
•  Reminiscing:
  • A time ago… (a lot of things happened a time ago)
• Sea Life:
  • Particles (While watching YouTube video where guy scrapes barnacles and uses for bait: “Yeah Dad, that’s why we don’t  use particles, because the fish just eat them off the hook.”)
• Mohawk:
  • More Hog (apparently the best hairstyle)