Mine doesn't talk yet but my husband and I call it a binky. Unfortunately the baby wants nothing to do with it so I don't think he'll be calling it anything.

Anonymous wrote:Proud we never used one for our daughter.

A name? You just called it a whatsit?

Or a pacifier? You're proud you risked your kid's life to SIDS?

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Anonymous wrote:Proud we never used one for our daughter.

Yeah, 3 kids we tried in vain with each one to get them to accept a “Pepe” (their grandparents’ terminology). Instead they spent a lot more time screaming in the car because there was no boob in their mouth. But hey, I guess I should just be proud of that.

We called them a dudlík (dood-lick) or a chupón (chew-PONE). Mexican-Czech family.

Anonymous wrote:Proud we never used one for our daughter.

Proud we never used one for our daughter.

Ciucio pronounced chew-cho. It's Italian for binky. We're a mixed language family but that one is always Italian!

Oldest called it a Bis. When they broke, he called it a B bis.

Youngest, who wasn't born when oldest quit pacifier, called it a na na. When they break, he called them b bis too. So weird.

Binky

Anonymous wrote:Kind of odd but weve had a wubanub with a puppy dog on it since our daughter was born and now refer to all pacifiers as puppies.

Same here. We have a money and elephant. Thankfully he’ll use them
interchangeably, but they’re called “monkey” and “elephant.”

Fwah fwah (derived from pacifier)

It stuck because it sounded vaguely european to us and we were amused. But now I have a 2.5yo (second child) pacifier addict and I’m less amused. Ugh her poor teeth and palate. I know I need to take it away, but giving up the pacifier wrecked my first child’s naps. This kid is crabby enough without giving up on naps.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We always called them “paci” pronounced “packy.”

I assume you are aware that "Paki" pronounced the same as what you call the pacifier is a derogatory term for people from Pakistan? I can't imagine saying that out loud, certainly not in public.

No, I’ve never heard that before, that’s terrible. Just looked it up and Wikipedia says it is just a UK and Canadian thing?

I think it's just an English-speaking thing. I've heard it in the States before, unfortunately.

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Anonymous wrote:We always called them “paci” pronounced “packy.”

I assume you are aware that "Paki" pronounced the same as what you call the pacifier is a derogatory term for people from Pakistan? I can't imagine saying that out loud, certainly not in public.

No, I’ve never heard that before, that’s terrible. Just looked it up and Wikipedia says it is just a UK and Canadian thing?

Buddy

Anonymous wrote:We always called them “paci” pronounced “packy.”

I assume you are aware that "Paki" pronounced the same as what you call the pacifier is a derogatory term for people from Pakistan? I can't imagine saying that out loud, certainly not in public.