{"id":14988,"date":"2017-12-29T21:06:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14988"},"modified":"2020-01-19T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T15:05:48","slug":"word-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14988","title":{"rendered":"Word Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/william.jpg\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"My nephew enjoying an icecream at Knowsley Safari Park\" width=\"200\" height=\"284\"><\/p>\n<p>I spent the past few days with my sister and her family. Her son is just over 2 and a half years old and is speaking a lot more than the last time I saw him at Easter this year.<\/p>\n<p>He has trouble pronouncing certain sounds, such as r and consonant clusters like st, but at long as you listen carefully, you can usually work out what he&#8217;s saying.<\/p>\n<p>He also invents new words, or gives words new meanings. For example, he has several toy monkeys (see below), and calls one &#8216;monkey&#8217; or &#8216;daddy monkey&#8217;, another &#8216;other monkey&#8217; or &#8216;mummy monkey&#8217;, and a smaller one he calls <strong>monkeykey<\/strong>, which I thought was very cute. He also calls playing cards, dominoes and other parts of games <strong>current buns<\/strong>. I&#8217;m not sure why.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up-date<\/strong>: it turns out that I misheard the name of the monkey &#8211; it&#8217;s actually <strong>Monkey Keith<\/strong> not <strong>monkeykey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/49282278548\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Monkeys \/ Mwnc\u00efod\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49282278548_79d709320f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Monkeys \/ Mwnc\u00efod\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the past few days with my sister and her family. Her son is just over 2 and a half years old and is speaking a lot more than the last time I saw him at Easter this year. He has trouble pronouncing certain sounds, such as r and consonant clusters like st, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,132,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-language-acquisition","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14988"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18727,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14988\/revisions\/18727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}