Simon Cowell, 55, thinks his son’s first word will be a bark.
The music mogul is afraid his 18-month-old tot Eric will be unable to speak properly as he gets older because he spends all of his time with their beloved Yorkshire Terrier pooches, Squiddly and Diddly.
He revealed: “He spends most of his time with Squiddly and Diddly. He is going to end up barking.”
He also explained that Eric might end up with a transatlantic drawl because of the accents he is surrounded with at home, including his US mother Lauren Silverman and their several Filipino house-workers.
He joked: “I have no idea what he is going to talk like, because his mum is American, I am English and a lot of the girls in my house are from the Philippines.”
And Simon loves being a daddy to the baby, whom he once joked could be a new member of One Direction, because he can see his own characteristics in him.