Dhritionary

Dhriti, my daughter, has a very cute way of pronouncing things. Since she has started some time back, we are having a hard time trying to comprehend the speed at which she starts using new words.

I have compiled a few of the words that she blabbers along with the way it is pronounced. I'm calling this "Dhritionary" and hope to update it on a periodic basis.

• Kaathees – Cockroach. If you want to scare her, this is the right word.
• Bisss – Tooth brush. You cant dare to take this away from her.
• Baathil – Water bottle. Recently she has improvised this into a sentence – “Baathil iyyi ammmmaaa”
• Chapaathi – Anything edible that’s flat and round. Even the omelet falls under this category
• Duppatiii – Her blanket. She now has two of them now and nobody can dare so much as to even touch them
• Shibaaa – Shiva. Yeah, that’s me. She has started to call me by the name.
• Sidisha - Sirisha
• Oneen – Onion. She loved to play with them in the kitchen
• Potatoooo – The extra “O” s bring out a very cute effect.
• Cabeees – Cabbage.
• Manoo – Mango
• Oren – Orange
• Appis – Apple
• Intu - Elephant
• Thimming – Swimming. She loves water and is ever ready for a swim
• Thelvi – Selvi. That’s the Tamil serial she loves the most on Sun TV because they show elephants at the start of the episodes
• Tin Tin – Lift. That’s the sound made when the doors open in our apartments.
• Paam – Pram. She loves all the prams in the world except hers.
• Bek – Bike. That’s her bike
• Patthaav – Wet floor. She took this from our shouts that she will fall down if she ran on the wet floor. So now the wet floor became “Patthaav”
• Uff Uff – Hot. Anything hot is Uff Uff.
• Kaam – Spicy. Anything spicy is Kaam.
• Thaatha – KFC Logo. Anybody old is Thaatha but she loves the KFC colonel the most
• Manthee – Monkey.
• Naamu – Ramu. That’s her best friend and our colleague Ram.
• Antha – Anitha. Another colleague
• Thampoo – Shampoo
• Paaaek – Paste.