Ive always prided myself on being literate,verbose and as anyone who knows me will tell you I could talk for Ireland,but it came to me whilst watching a re-run of the film "in the name of the Father" that there is one word missing from my vocabulary.
I haven't used the word "Daddy" since I was 10yrs old,when my own father was sadly killed in an accident.
All these years and 8 kids of my own later it suddenly hit me like the proverbial sledgehammer .
With my own children I always referred to my husband as "your Dad","your Father"but never "Daddy".
What a can of worms to have opened!
Who would have imagined that nearly 40 years later I would be actively grieving a little word that most take for granted.
It's hard to describe the emotion and for sure this is not the place to do that so I'm not gonna go there .
It makes sense though of that phrase much beloved of psychologists and counsellors "trigger words".
What it also does is actually put a value other than an academic one on the importance of language cos I always believed that using all them big words that only a few could understand somehow made me just that little bit more intelligent than those around me.
It seems though that for whatever reason I have deprived or removed from my vocabulary what is probably the very first word we as children ever speak!
Sorry if I appear to be waffling here but there is a point somewhere in all this,and its probably not just about being aware of the words we use.
It would be interesting to know if other people have words or phrases they just wont or cant use for whatever reason .
OK that's enough of the psycho babble for one day now its back to that other head wrecking subject in my life today,.... exams!
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