Words

While we were on holiday last week, I decided it would be an interesting exercise to try to write a list of the words in Oscar’s current vocabulary. We know it’s pretty big for his age, compared to other children we know of a similar age, but I wanted to get a rough figure. It’s very much an inexact science, because it relies on us accurately remembering the words he uses and his vocabularly is constantly increasing. Still, it’s only to get an estimate and it’s a snapshot in time for my own amusement. We tried to ignore words or phrases he has only every used once, after repeating something somebody else said. I think we’ve also only included words he can use in the right context (although they may also be included in his monologues of streams of words “buses”, “dunnock”, “ducks”, “up”, “toga”, “mummy” etc).

Anyway, the rough figure is just under 600. Published here for your amusement.

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Ambulance
Andy
Angel
Animals
Apple
Apron
Arm
Arrowheads
ASDA
Aunty
Baby
Back
Badger
Bag
Bags
Ball
Balloon
Banana
Bang
Barney
Barn Owl
Basket
Bath
Beak
Beanies
Bear
Beard
Bed
Bee
Beep Beep
Best
Better
Bib
Big
Bike
Bin
Birdies
Biscuit
Bite
Black
Blackberries
Blanket
Bless You
Blow
Blue
Blueberries
Boat
Bob
Bogies
Bonjela
Booby
Book
Boots
Both
Bottle
Bowl
Box
Bra
Bracelet
Break It
Broccoli
Broken
Brown
Bruise
Brush
Bubbles
Bucket
Bug
Buggy
Bum bum
Bunny
Burp
Bus
Buster
Butterfly
Button
Buttons
Bye Bye
Cake
Calpol
Camel
Camera
Can
Candles
Car
Card
Carrot
Carry
Castle
Cat
Chair
Cheek
Cheers
Cheese
Cherry
Chicken
Chicks
Chilli
Chin
Chips
Chocolate
Chocolate Buttons
Choo Choo
Chris
CJ
Clap
Clean
Clean It
Click
Climb
Clock
Close
Coat
Coffee
Coke
Colour
Computer
Cook
Coot
Copter (Helicopter)
Corn
Cot
Coug
Cow
Crab
Crayon
Cream
Crisp
Crisps
Crocodile
Cuddle
Cup
Cupboard
Curry
Curtain
Cute
Dab Dab (Bingo, learned from Aunty Holly)
Daddy
Daisy
Dancing
Danger
Dark
Dead
Dear Zoo (a favourite book)
Debbie
Different
Digger
Dindins (Dinner)
Dingle (Dangle Scarecrow)
Dinosaur
Dirty
Dizzy
Doctor
Dolphin
Donkey
Door
Down
Dragon
Draw
Dress
Drink
Drink It
Driver
Driving
Drum
Dry
Duck
Dumbledore
Dunnock
Earring
Eat
Eat It
Eggs
Eight
Elephant
Emily
Emperor Penguin
Empty
Enough
Eye
Face
Farm
Farmer
Fat
Feather
Feet
Find It
Finger
Finished
Fire
Fire Engine
Fish
Fix It
Flannel
Flap
Floor
Flower
Flush
Flutter
Fly
Foot
Fork
Fox
Friday
Fridge
Friend
Frighten
Froggy
Funny
Gandy (Granny)
Garage
Garden
Gate
Gentle
George
Ginger
Giraffe
Glasses
Goat
Gone
Grape
Grass
Hagrid
Hair
Hairbrush
Half
Hammer
Hamster
Hand
Hand Bag
Handrail
Hannah
Happies (Happy Stars, like Smilie Faces)
Happy
Hard
Harry Potter
Hat
Head
Heart
Heavy
Helmet
Help
Hendrick
Henry
Hermione
Heron
Hide
High Chair
Hole
Home
Honey
Hoo Hoo (Hoover)
Hoops
Horsey
Hose
Hospital
Hot
Hot Can (Kettle)
Hot Hot
House
How Do You Do
Hungry
Hups
Hurray
Ice (Ice Cream)
In
Incy (Wincy Spider)
Jack
Jacket
Jar
Jay
Jeans
Jenny
Jig (Music)
Joe
Jon
Jug
Juice
Jump
Jumper
Key
Kiss
Kite
Kitties
Knee
Knife
Lady
Lap
Lavender
Leaf
Leg
Lemon
Letter
Lick
Lid
Light
Like It
Lion
Little
Loft
Lofty
Lorry
Lucy
Magazine
Mag (Magpie)
Magnet
Mallard
Man
Mango
Marmite
Mat
McDonalds (oh dear)
Meany
Meat
Messy
Mice
Michelle
Milk
Mint
Minute
Mirror
Miss
Missed
Mixture
Mole
Monkey
Moon
Moorhen
More
Mouse
Mousse
Mouth
Move It
Mower
Mr Tumble
Muddy
Mug
Mummy
Nails
Naked
Nana
Nanny
Nap
Nappy
Natadie (Natalie)
Naughty
Neck
Nest
Nice
Ninety
No
Noah
Noisy
Nonk (Ninky Nonk)
Nose
Nurse
Nuts
Oatibix
Oh No
Oil
OK
Olbas (Olbas Oil)
Old
Oliver
Onion
Oops
Orange
Ossa (Oscar)
Otter
Ouch
Owl
Paint
Pakka (Makka Pakka)
Pamber (Grandpa)
Pan
Panton (Paddington)
Pants
Pardon
Park
Parrot
Pasta
Peas
Pegs
Pen
Pendy (Pennies,money)
Percy
Petrol
Phone
Picnic
Picture
Pig
Pigeon
Piggle (Igglepiggle)
Pillow
Pilot
Pineapple
Pingu
Pink
Pi Pi (Pizza)
Pistachio
Plane
Plants
Plate
Play
Please
Plum
Pog (Makka Pakka’s Og Pog)
Poke
Police
Police Man
Ponk (Pinky Ponk)
Pontis (Pontipines)
Poo
Pooh
Poorly
Pop Pop (Fart)
Pops
Post Box
Pot
Potato
Powder
Pram
Present
Prison
Prundies (Prunes)
Puffer (Inhaler)
Puffin
Puppy
Push
Rabbit
Rain
Rattle
Read
Read It
Red
Red (Ketchup)
Rice
Riggie (Rigatoni)
Ring
Ring Ring
Road
Robby
Robin
Robot
Rolly
Ron
Rose
Row Row (Row Your Boat)
Rubbish
Run
Samosa
Sand
Sandwich
Sausage
Saw
Scoop
Scrambler
Scratch
Sea
Seagull
Sharp
Sheep
Shoe
Shop
Shower
Silly
Sink
Siren
Sit
Skirt
Sleep
Sleeve
Slide
Slippers
Slippery
Snake
Sneeze
Snot
Snow Man
Soap
Socks
Sofa
Sorry
Spade
Spider
Spin
Splash
Sponge
Spoon
Spot
Spud
Squirrel
Star
Sticker
Stinky
Stone
Story
Stripy
Stroke
Stuck
Sunny
Susan
Susie
Swan
Sweetie (Sultanas)
Swim
Swing
Syringe
Table
Tablets
Tail
Talons
Tap
Tato (Potato)
Tea
Teddy
Teeth
Thank You
That One
There
Thirsty
Thomas
Throw
Tie
Tigger
Tiny
Tissue
Tit (Blue Tit)
Toast
Toe
Toga
Toggle
Toilet
Tomatoes
Tombliboos
Toothbrush
Towel
Town
Tractor
Train
Travis
Tree
Tricycle
Trolley
Trousers
Truck
Trumpet
Tubbies (Teletubbies)
Tube
Tuck tuck
Tummy
Tuna
TV
Tweenies
Tweet Tweet
Two
Udder
Umbrella
Up
Upsey (Upsey Daisy)
Vaseline
Vet
Vroom
Waffle
Walk
Wash
Washing Machine
Water
Water Rat
Wee Wee
Wendy
Wet
Wheel
Wheelbarrow
White
Whoosh
Willy
Window
Windy
Wing
Wipe
Wood
Wood (Woodpecker)
Work
Wottingers
Yellow
Yes
Yog (Yoghurt)
Yuck
Zebra
Zip
Zoo