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My dad used to stand at the top of the basement stairs and yell "Marguerite, Hey, Margreet, Hey!!!" Dad's been gone 10 years now, but every great while I still get to hear his voice yell my name.

I get to hear how I talk to my wife. Huey talks to her the exact same way I do including the stern "BELLE!" that I use. He also grumbles with her name mixed in. She's always telling me "you see how you talk to me?"

Haha yes, I had a similar thing when Alfie was young and I was still living with my parents. My mum would call up the stairs to me and I would respond. Alfie learned my response. So my mum would call up the stairs and Alfie would respond with a very stroppy teenager "WHAT?". 😂

I was educated and made self-aware when mine started mimicking my 'hello' when the phone rang. Apparently I pause and sigh before saying a low and slightly irritated sounding 'hello'. Who knew? I sound like I really don't want to answer the phone! Parrots really pick up on such things!

When picking up words/phrases, Alfie has always preferred male voices. He does mimic me sometimes but if I want him to learn something I'm better off asking a male to say it as he'll seemingly pick it up quicker. My dad has been helping out lots with all my house renovations so Alfie has picked up my dad yelling my name. And now he uses it with gusto. It actually caught me out once because my dad had been round and left, then I heard him yell my name from downstairs. I assumed he had forgotten something and had come back... but no, it was just Alfie. And he's spot on with it as well. He also yells my mum's name in my dad's voice. More recently, Alfie has taken to mimicking my dad's phone calls. He'll make a phone ringing noise, answer it with 'hello' in my dad's voice, he'll mumble a lot in my dad's voice then say "alright then... alright then.... bye!" and make the phone hanging up noise. That one always makes me smile. Even though he doesn't use many words, you can tell he's mimicking my dad's voice when he's mumbling.

Dorian - you ungrateful sod you. 🤣