Aside from these topics, Puck could verbalize almost anything. He loved alliteration and rhymes, and used many phrases incorporating these aspects of language, especially alliteration. The following are some examples:
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Alliteration (tape recorded)
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Parakeet power!
Pocket parrot.
Brave bird.
Penny, Penny parakeet.
Are you a brave boy?
Don’t waste words!
You want a people parakeet, Pucker?
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This painful paracheet (made up word).
Pucky’s a pleasure.
Come on, pistol Pucky.
I love to play, patty Puckeroo.
Brilliant brain.
Pass the pepper.
We’re so weird.
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What you pay, Puck parrot?
Does he like to pledge people?
You told three times.
…exactly but patty best bright bird.
Be the proud picker.
Means prominent polite little Pucker postal break.
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Untaped
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Bird, I love you parakeet pal.
The beetle bites his tongue.
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Beetlebug, *what a billy bird.
I’m a peace parrot.
*Beetlebug was a word Puck created and used frequently for a year or two. Beetlebug became one of the characters in the world of his imagination.
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Pay the price.
I forgot parrot’s practical.
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Rhyme (tape recorded)
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Puckeroo, it was cruel.
Cami, lucky Pucky, he’s a polite little Puckeroo.
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Oh shoot, parrot pursuit!
It’s no way okay.
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Blue streak parakeet.
Grateful Puck, you’d better wake up.
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As Puck matured and built upon a basic language foundation, he uttered several verb tenses, longer sentences or series of sentences, and more sophisticated words. Some examples of his later sentences:
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I’m used to playing with Cami.
You should think about that.
Cami looks small to him. He tends to talk doubletalk.
Parrot talking, that’s something Pucky can do.
And that’s the copy he likes to hear.
Tell mommy how we got there.
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We have more fun when we talk.
I think you should wake up said the beetle.
It’s in Africa. I see it happening. Look!
And I think about a weekend bird. Okay, so what went on?
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You should not interrupt me.
Do you want to come at me? Do you want to see me?
I can tell people now that they’ve discovered the bird.
Will you be taught from there, Puck?
Where’s our extension, mom?
Do you want your appointment?
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Some of the words Puck later used included:
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actually
advertisement
barricade
delectable
delightful
efficient
embarrass
excitable
experiment
extended
fatality
frightening
gentleman
graduation
hysterical
independent
information
intelligent
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interrupting
irresponsible
irritating
jeopardy
membership
nonpractical
operating
opportune
outstanding
Pagliacci
pathetic
personable
policeman
possibility
practically
reasonable
remarkable
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Republican
responsible
sacrifice
separated
slippery
suggestion
temperature
threatening
transition
unbeatable
unbreakable
understanding
virtually
warranty
woodpecker
yesterday
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