So... what was your first word?

According to my baby book, which I dragged out of the closet, my first two words were “hot” and “cookie”.

According to my mom, my first word was “bread.” Of course that was at a point in time when she actually had time to bake bread.

My feelings towards first words are hard to articulate. Babies make random sylabble sounds of no meaning whatsoever - repeating “tatatata” over and over again, for example. Is it really fair to treat “dada” or “mama” as a first word?

“Book.”

Of course, I get the reference. :slight_smile:
My grandfather taught me to sit in his lap, pound my fist on the table and say “Beer!”, believe it or not. He was quite proud of that, but the rest of the family wasn’t quite as impressed…

Eric

You are right that sometimes babies make random syllable sounds. I’m sure I said some gibberish before and after saying papá.

Except that in some languages, dada and mama and papa can actually mean something. I think first words are when a baby utters something that have some meaning in the language(s) he/she is being raised.

My first word was “duck” during a trip to the park.

I was just one letter out.

I am told that my first word was “Tang”.

I’m not very original, my first word was “dada”, but my little sister’s first word was “Jesus”, she yelled it out when she saw a man with a beard.

cookie. and I still love em. I stoped telling women though because they make fun of me.

“All gone.”

I don’t know what mine was, but my son’s was “Hello!” He was an infant, lying on the changing table, I was changing his diaper, and I’d always talk to him and say Hello to him. One day he clearly said “Hello!” back to me. It’s true.

“Eddie” which is my dad’s name and what I’ve always called him.

‘Beer!’

a la Santos.

N.

Oh, and my cousin’s first word was “Batman!”

(And yeah, she had to get stitches one day after donning a cape and leaping off her parents’ bed.)

“Dog!” shortly followed by “cat!”
Mama and Daddy had to wait a few weeks.

Mine was “fish”

My son’s was “dog” and also mimicked the bark too!

“Bird.”

When I was a baby my dad was in law school. Thus he spent a lot of time either at class or studying and not so much at home. According to family tradition my first phrase was “Bye bye Daddy.”

Regarding what other posters have said, that simple repetition of syllables shouldn’t count, that’s true. The first word is when the baby associates meaning with the sound s/he is making. First words do exist, and parents can usually tell when the child first makes that leap.

They just can.

Mine was ‘bottle.’ My son’s was ‘up’ (as in ‘pick me up’), and my daughter’s was ‘hi.’