# Yikes! I Can't Understand My Grandson's Speech!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 22, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-i-cant-understand-my-grandsons-speech/478314 "2008-12-22T15:31:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yikes-i-cant-understand-my-grandsons-speech/478314/21 "2008-12-24T22:44:32Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> Quasimodem, I hate to tell you this, but it sounds like a classic case of yankee changeling disorder.

Nope, southern born and raised, right down to the y’ontoo? (“Do you want to?”)

“Frappe”?

I haven’t heard that word since high school when we defined it as someone who bites the bubbles in the bathtub! But, we pronounced it “frap”.

“Don’t talk to **him**. That guy’s a **FRAP**!”😃

Q

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