My wife and I were discussing this the other night. My son has been chattering a lot more these days. To give you a bit of a background, my son just turned 8 months old and while it’s been some time since he’s discovered he can use his voice for things other than screaming for his bottle or letting us know he’s ready to wake up in the morning, he’s just started expressing himself vocally.

While we were holding him one night, he went from making “GAH GAH GAH GAH GAH” sounds to “AHK AHK AHK.” Then, out of nowhere, he says the word “cock” with perfect clarity. I laughed my ass off and my wife tried explaining that he’d actually said “gock,” with a G, not “cock” with a C. I tried taking advantage of the situation by getting him to use the phonetic “AHK” sound to form “Barack.”

Tonight, while my wife was volunteering to help me test my sparkly new microphone that may or may not be used for a podcast hosted at blargen.com, (¬_¬ ) I was able to capture him saying it again while recording! He started with the “AHK” stuff again, so I tried, for the second time, to get him to say “Barack.” Hey, might as well start ‘em young. Then, instead, he said cock.

So I submit for your perusal an mp3 of the event in question. I didn’t cut anything out in the middle of this clip, so it runs from when I hit the record button until the word in question happens. The setting was casual and completely unplanned, so I’m not exactly using a radio voice or any other pretense, be warned. The file is about 2.1 MB and runs for 2 minutes and 11 seconds.

Let me know what you guys think! What was my son’s first word: Gock or Cock?