Who teaches little children what names to give their dolls? Or better still, where do little three year olds dig up some non existent names to give to their dolls or other toys? Gods creations are simply marvelous, especially the human species. The story I am about to tell you about a little girl surprised and amazed me. I was filled with awe as I left my friends house that day. Maybe I should go off and find myself a good woman to marry, have a little blessing that will fill my house with the kind of joy being distributed effortlessly by little children.
I have this male colleague that I always visit when I get lonely staying in my own apartment. This guy is married and has two little daughters. The first is three while the second is only six months old. This family is an epitome of peace and order. Nothing ever seems out of place in their countenance.
It is a very normal sight to see this three year old girl running round the sitting room, arranging and rearranging little toys, household items etc. She always seems to be everywhere at the same time, laughing, shrieking, singing and starring at everything at the same time. She never seems to get tired. As she was playing with a toy I quickly called out to her and enquired the name of her toy.
Her dad and mum immediately started laughing at my question, but why were they laughing at me? I just asked a harmless question. Then my friend and colleague told me this story to explain why they were laughing. He told me that he went out with the girl when she was just less that two years old and as they were shopping, he bought the little girl a doll. The girl smiled and told him the name of the doll was ‘Joy’.
Well, that was not very surprising as they started to think the girl just mentioned any name that came to her little mind. Not until the man took a business trip to a far location, when he was about to return, he went out shopping and saw this neat doll, different color from the earlier one. He bought the doll for his daughter.
When he got home and gave this little girl the toy, the child smiled broadly and called it Terry. Her mother wanted to know why Terry, but no explanation was offered by this little one. At her third birthday, one of the gifts she got was a big teddy from an uncle. When she unwrapped the package, she just burst out laughing. Her parents wanted to know why she was laughing about the doll; she laughed the more and in a little innocent voice, told them that the teddy was a ‘Bushkaduck’. Since then, she always carries Bushkaduck around the house, sitting it on chairs, dinning chairs and even combing its hair.
So what is a Bushkaduck? Both parents still don’t know what it means or even how their daughter coined that word. I am still looking forward to an explanation for this amazing ability to form and use strange words, more so when it comes from a three year old.
If you know what this word means, explain it to me so I can free my friend from worry.
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