the vocabulary of ava

ava's vocabulary is growing rapidly these days. we're amused by her multi-syllable consonants (who knew the 'duck' could be a two syllable word) and the fact she has yet to decide that either john or i is worth a precious phoneme. the general public is very amused by "clock", especially when applied to their watches.

should you encounter ava in person in the near future, here's a little translation of her spoken vocabulary for you :

word	sounds like	used to denote
eye	aaiiii	eyes
duck	duck-ke	ducks, stuffed or real
cat	dat	cats and cheetahs
clock	gock-ke	clocks, watches and tires on cars(???)
apple	apfff	apples, pears, occasionally tomatoes
up	up-sss	i want up
down	daaaaaa	usually down, occasionally means up
hi	hi	hi or bye - always accompanied by a wave
cow	mmmm (for moooo)	cows
dog	dog	dogs
???	da-da-da	t-shirt logos