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Kaid Vocabulary

My son, like most children, makes up his own words.

Basically, kids don’t have a big vocabulary, and their world view is understandably tiny. That said, I think that this kind of creative invention is an amazing thing.

He’s getting older (almost 7), and sadly these invented words are becoming more and more scarce.

That said, I wanted to document some of them here for you. (And me.)

Mondi [mon-dee] – “Momma” and “Dada” at the same time.

Dowsh [dow-shh] – Truck.

Schoolnagers [skool-nay-jers] – Teenagers that attend a school.

Wuzaiga [wuh-zay-guh] – Godzilla, my son’s favorite movie monster.

The old 90’s [thee-old-nin-dees] – Anything from the entire history of the world that predates 2004 or so. World War I, WHAM, Ghengis Khan, the A-Team and King Tut are all equally from the “old 90’s.

Stunk [stuhngk] - Skunk, the mammal often stinks.

Bishburr [bish-ber] – Stormtrooper, from Star Wars.

Rocktaur [rok-tar] – A musical instrument used to play rock-n-roll music; guitar.

A few of these words were incorporated into our first book of monster haiku, Caught Creatures.

- Daniel


Discussion (6) ¬

  1. Pete Harless

    My daughter and I now use Whuzaiga as an exclamation. Fun words!

    • Daniel

      You don’t know it, but that made my day.

  2. smilinphoenix

    My granddaughter knows that six stringed instrument as a Kintow {Kin-Tao}.
    She heard me call it a guitar and she kindly corrected me:
    “its a kintow, paw paw”.
    (Silly me!)

  3. Chicar

    Poor guys, ”the old 90’s” is kind of a way to say you are a dinosaur.

  4. eL_sTiKo

    Here are some of my favourites from our kids over the years:

    BIP: “Please open the pop-top of this drink bottle and return it to me”

    MOOPIE: Milk.

    CRINGKRONT: Concrete.

    There are pages more, but I forget things.

    • Daniel

      Those are awesome. GRINGKRONT! I might have to use that!