Little Kids Fubbles No-Spill Bubble Tumbler, (Colors May Vary)

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When it comes to volume of bubbles per penny spent, this machine wins. It claims to blow 4,500 bubbles per minute, and our testers said it does, indeed, create a ton of bubbles. (To be honest, there were too many to count.) The fan starts up immediately and bubbles start pouring straight up seconds after you turn it on.

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The language contains a large number of terms that, at some point in their past, have lost their mojo and now travel on alone. These are the “unkempts”, “uncouths”, “underwhelmeds”, and “nonplusseds” – terms that linger on the bad, sad, seamy side of life. Those that can never quite be gruntled without being dissed as well. Like many linguists, Dent is positive about linguistic change, and feels that children are its flagbearers. She’s excited that non-native speakers of English around the world now hugely outnumber native speakers, and about the “new Englishes” in their hands and mouths. She’s not afraid of AI, and doesn’t think new technology is going to destroy the way we speak our language – though that fear is nothing new. Victorians were afraid of the postcard, she points out. Their telegram was our “text speak is ruining our children”. On the other hand, she’s not keen on the methods that schools have recently been made to use to teach grammar. “If you say to kids, ‘Do you know about ablaut reduplication?’, their eyes would just completely glaze over. But if you say to them, ‘Would you like to play a game of pong ping, or have a kat kit?’, they understand that instinctively and it becomes quite exciting.” She has two children and – far from correcting their errors – has always loved it when they get words wrong. “English has always evolved by mistake,” she says. “The example I give is the jerusalem artichoke, which has nothing to do with Jerusalem and is not even an artichoke. The plant is a heliotrope – it turns towards the sun – but because we couldn’t pronounce the Italian ‘ gira sol’, we thought ‘Jerusalem’ would do.” Encourage your toddler to imitate the grown-ups mowing the lawn with this pretend lawn mower that sends bubbles out the top. The toy makes a revving sound to further foster imagination (read why pretend play is so important), encourage outdoor time and help with gross motor coordination and exercise.You may also be “mayed” (possessing power), “ept”, “flappable”, “peccable”, “bridled”, and “descript”. (But never “promptu”, “petuous”, “shevelled”, “chalant”, or a “nomer”.) The category is so full that today’s survivors have been given their own linguistic moniker: “orphaned negatives”. It doesn’t come with a bubble solution but any store-bought solution will work just fine. It claims to blow over 4,800 bubbles a minute. While we can't vouch for the exact number, this bad boy has two speed settings and pumps out a large number of bubbles at a steady pace. Needless to say, the Zerhunt machine had no problem keeping my patio looking like an iridescent wonderland for my kids to waltz around in.

Little Kids Fubbles No-Spill Bubble Tumbler, (Colors May Vary)

Encouragingly, she believes texting, social media and emojis do not spell doom for grammar geeks and word lovers but will instead enrich our use of language.

The awkward hesitation you make when introducing someone because you’ve completely forgotten their name? That’s a “tartle”. The indulgence of staying in bed long after it is time to get up is known, in old Scots, as ­“hurkle-durkling”. And if you feel a sense of impending doom on a Sunday evening, it might help to know you’re experiencing a fit of the “mubble-­fubbles”. These in turn might give rise to a spot of “humdudgeon”: an imaginary illness for which there is no cure other than to remain “snerdling” (snuggling) under the duvet.