As the proud father of twins (although not so proud now one has started claiming he's an Arsenal supporter), I really liked the clip of babbling twins that circulated on the web last week. For those of you who haven't seen it, it's here.
There's also a nice bit of analysis of what's going on, provided by a child speech expert.
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