Elijah loves trucks right now. For months on end, he's been screaming "TWUCK!! TWUCK!!" at the sight of any large vehicle. Really cool. He's into it. We got him loads of twucks. All was well.
But now his pronunciation of the word "truck" has changed. He is replacing the first two letters of the word "truck" with a clear, drawn-out, loud, well-enunciated F.
To further complicate things, he started speaking in short phrases at around the same time. Which, so far, has produced some delightful gems. Replace the first letter with a loud "FFFFFFFF" and you get the gist.
"Mommy, *uck!"
"*uck down!"
"*uck home!"
"Dump *uck!" (sounds a lot like 'dumb *uck', especially when mumbled while wondering off)
"Big *uck!"
"Fire *uck!"
And, of course, when he is really excited about a truck,
"*uck! *uck! *uck!!"
We have tried to practice prounouncing "truck" with him, but all that has done is made him yell "FUCK!" even louder. So we stopped. Now we just try to avoid the topic, but it's difficult given that the stupid things are all over the roads. Who knew that things usually used to describe trucks in phrases are so interesting when applied to, um, this area. We totally are at a loss for what to do - the only thing we can do, and probably will do, is to try to record him saying it so we can play it back someday for our grandchildren.
Someone please help us.
