Tiarnan invents expletives

About a week ago, I scolded Tiarnan, twelve months, lightly for something: "You are a naughty boy!", I said, to him, quietly, while holding him in my arms. His reply rather surprised me:

"Baboon buttock!" he called me.

Now I found this both hilarious and surprising. Firstly, no-one had ever linked those two words together for him, though they would have been heard independently, in different circumstances, in the correct contexts. I was surprised that he had basically invented the idea of an expletive - and coined one, for himself.

I told my wife about it later, while he was in earshot - and he just smiled mischievously to himself. What a character.

(If you would like to read more of Tiarnan, twelve months, or his gifted brothers, Ainan Celeste Cawley, a scientific child prodigy, aged seven years and two months, please go to: http://scientific-child-prodigy.blogspot.com/2006/10/scientific-child-prodigy-guide.html I also write of gifted education, intelligence, IQ, child prodigy, child genius, adult genius, baby genius, savant, the creatively gifted, gifted adults and gifted children, in general. Thanks.)