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)