Um is good word

08 Jan

tinacek |  January 8th,2010 | Funny things, Nathan's second year |  3 comments

For a while now Nathan has been using the word ‘um’, particularly before a ‘yes’ or ‘no’.  We have been trying to convince him that it is not a real word and talk him out of using it.  He, however, thinks it is a good word.  Our conversations go something like…

Nathan: um, yes.

Mummy: um isn’t a real word, just say yes

Nathan: um is word

Mummy: um is not a word

Nathan: Um is good word!

Andrew decided to get me to look it up in the dictionary to convince Nathan that it is not a word, asuming it wouldn’t be there.  Of course it was, and  now Nathan calls the dictionary the ‘um book’.

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3 Responses

  1. kate says:
    January 8, 2010 at 8:52 pm

    This is hilarious! He is too cute! Love it 🙂

  2. julie says:
    January 9, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    so cute xxx

  3. yewenyi says:
    January 10, 2010 at 9:18 am

    go nathan go! um is a word, just not one you use all the time. tell him he should only use it when he is a bit unsure! 😛

    So it has an: ORIGIN natural utterance: first recorded in English in the early 17th cent.

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