words you use when you tickle a toddler
- From: Isabelle Cecchini <isabelle.cecchini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:21:32 +0100
Hello
What words do you English-speakers use when you tickle someone? That someone might be a toddler, since it's really great fun to tickle a toddler, but really, it might be anyone.
The traditional words we use in France are "guili, guili, guili". Those are nonsense words, I think. Is there a traditional equivalent in English, apart from "tickle, tickle"?
Another magic formula which I learnt from my grandmother is: " Elle est où, la côte joyeuse ?" or "Elle est à qui, la côte joyeuse ?"
That use of "côte joyeuse" (= ticklish rib) is not recognised by any French dictionary that I know of, but it is nevertheless mentioned by Émile Zola, which is something I would never have known before I discovered the Internet.
Would an English speaker say: "Where is that ticklish rib, then?" or "Whose ticklish rib is that?"?
-- Isabelle Cecchini .
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