Little kids and their cute mispronunciations

[tofuscramble]

What things do/did your kids mispronounce?

 

I think its so cute when my kids mispronounce things, although I do correct them. One day they wont do it any more and I'll really miss it!

 

We were in Office Depot by the school supplies yesterday and my 4 year old had been wondering around by the pencil sharpeners, suddenly he shouts across the store. "mum, I think we need a new sharpen penciler!". I said "you mean a pencil sharpener" he said "yeah, that's what I said, a sharpen penciler!". :lol:

 

He also says "cajuzzi" for jacuzzi and "pasghetti" for spaghetti. :D

[charmama4]

my mommy told me I used to say "magagine" for magazine. Were'nt I cute???:lol:

[Sophia]

My 7 y.o. heard dh and I talking about getting a grass-fed cow.

Later she told someone "Daddy went to get a half -dead cow." :001_huh:

[SailorMom]

My favorite was my oldest son's word for helicopter.. "hop-o-cop-o-ter"

[Kate CA]

"Skipchap" for Chapstick. Loved that one.

[KJsMom]

My nephew said gril la la for gorilla. My little sister said courage for cleavage. My daughter said pol nolish for nail polish & nougats for music. Too cute.

[Irene Lynn]

My asked me if I wanted to "Come upstirs to see my wabberdory." I love his imagination, but sometimes it is hard to have a clue what he is talking about.

[Parrothead]

Hey-mums = M&M's

Bibbit= biscuit

pa-piece = pacifier

[hsbaby]

Hahaha.....those are all too cute! My favorite was my oldest used to call the Internet the nenernet ( like knee-ner-net):)

[Just Robyn]

The other day my ds said to me, "Why are they called girled cheese sandwiches? They're for girls and boys."

[Embassy]

While not exactly a mispronunciation, it is related. My daughter loves blueberries. She will often ask for "blue strawberries" instead of saying blueberries. Then yesterday I gave her some blackberries for lunch and she proceeded to ask for "blue blackberries."

[tofuscramble]

These are all so adorable!! :D

[Tiberia]

I had a gospel song on the cd player with the chorus, "I am redeemed, I am redeemed..."

 

My dd was singing, "I am retrieved, I am retrieved..."

 

Makes sense. Our dogs are retrievers.

[Dawn in OH]

Owen says "bikit" for biscuit and "evil faire" for medieval faire. He's got a lot of these but those are the only two I can remember until he actually says them.

[Dandelion]

These are all too cute!! :)

 

My now 7yo son used to say "no-bar" for granola bar (when he was 2) and another one that stuck with me was his insistence on calling the trachea (windpipe) the "e-trachea" when he was 4. He was very much into learning about the human body at that time, and figured that since there was an "esophagus" there must be an "etrachea". Took us over a year to convince him otherwise... ;)

 

My 2yo daughter calls water "wa-dirt"...

[TheTwinsMom1]

My kids have speech delays and some of theirs are so cute.

 

Noah says Batar for guitar

He says Bun, instead of biscuit

 

He has more but I am drawing a blank right now.

[SquirrellyMama]

What things do/did your kids mispronounce?

 

I think its so cute when my kids mispronounce things, although I do correct them. One day they wont do it any more and I'll really miss it!

 

 

 

My oldest used to say mumpkin for pumpkin. I never did correct her and she was saying it correctly the next year. I was sad because she loved her mumpkin so much and even slept with it after we got it from the pumpkin patch.

 

She used to call construction paper "destruction paper".

 

My son says Holly Hobbit instead of Holly Hobby :lol: I love that one. He used to call horses "sheeshees"

 

My youngest is the one I have some problems with because I cannot get her to correct some of her words. Instead of "going" she says "der". I'm der get a new pencil. I'm der go outside.

 

She used to run through my room and see me sitting on the bed and yell "mama nuggle!"

 

One more that I thought of is "warmart" instead of Walmart. All three of them have done that and 2 still say it.

[littlebug42]

When my oldest was little, at mass she thought our priest's name was " Beata God" because we always say "thanks be to God".

[Chelle in MO]

One of mine used to say the word "giraffe" with a /d/ sound at the front instead of the /j/. Diraffe. Cute.

[jenn1129]

when my daughter was around 3, she would tell people "i have natural booty" (beauty). that is prob my favorite!

[jenL]

My oldest used to call his carseat his "seat car" and a caterpillar was a "pader-pader".

 

My youngest still calls the remote control the "moke-ka-ma-troll".

A computer is a "cum-cue-na". These are really the only 2 words I can think of that he consistently says without correcting himself even if we correct him.

 

I love the words kids create on their own!

[Tenaj]

My four year old (going to be five on Sunday) asked for "corn on the dog" (corn on the cob)for his birthday. Cracks me up!

 

My favorite mispronounciation though was my fifth child who would say "scwissors". I was sad the day he actually pronounced them correctly.

[kym]

My oldest used to say mumpkin for pumpkin. I never did correct her and she was saying it correctly the next year. I was sad because she loved her mumpkin so much and even slept with it after we got it from the pumpkin patch.

 

:001_smile:

When my oldest dd was little, she called them "gunk-ums". To this day, we carve gunk-ums!

 

I always thought it was strange that, when they were very little, my oldest called snow "sow" (long o) and my ds called it "no". They left out different letters!

 

Also, my youngest used to love watching the gub-gubs in brother's fish tank!

[amyable]

The other day my ds said to me, "Why are they called girled cheese sandwiches? They're for girls and boys."

 

One of my kids said "girlcheese" and wondered the same thing! :lol:

 

Let's see, some of my favorites:

 

the many forms of banana: beeyana, bananana, bana

 

shoom = spoon

 

bassert = dessert

 

For the longest time my now 12yo said "ig" for "ad" anywhere it occurred, like "Mom, I'm going downstairs to igmire the Christmas tree."

 

Ugh, of course I can't think of any more now that I'm on the spot. I've got a book full of cute sayings somewhere, but it's usually a whole phrase or event, not just a mispronunciation. :)

[KrissiK]

We've been memorizing the States and my 6 year old discovered a new one - It's called "New Breakfast" and it's just north of Kansas and south of South Dakota!

[Pajama Mama]

DD used to say:

Lik-up for lipstick

Me mote for remote

puter for computer

glasses for gracias--I still remember when I would hand her something and she would thank me with "glasses"

[k2bdeutmeyer]

Oh boy, I could have a list a mile long.....

 

Cherry Chill = Cherry Hill

plap = clap

alligator = elevator

crappa = grandpa

swimming tool = swimming pool

fridge-driver = refrigerator

bix it masheem = washing machine, lol

[DarlaS]

My favorite was my oldest son's word for helicopter.. "hop-o-cop-o-ter"

 

DD mispronounced it "hello copper". She was probably about 2 at the time.

[SquirrellyMama]

crappa = grandpa

 

 

:tongue_smilie:

[Murmer]

My dd (2 almost 3) says Lootah for Utah...which is really cute when she says Gamma iv in Lootah (translated to Grandma lives in Utah).

[k2bdeutmeyer]

what's even funnier is that she calls the corresponding grandma "the crappa gramma", because my mom is not married, LOL!

[Gooblink]

Aw, y'all are making me want another baby.

 

boona for balloon

callerpitter for caterpillar

vallina for vanilla

 

Also, this isn't a mispronounciation, but they referred to breasts as "puffs." I thought that one was just too cute to correct. :)

[nova mama]

These are all so adorable! DD4 used to "bow-boo-too" for computer. :)

[Giraffe]

Hostipal (we have a lot of doctors in the family)

Brushteeth (instead of toothbrush)

washface (instead of wash cloth)

Blanklet (interestingly, only small blankets get this name - big ones are blankets)

[Melinda S in TX]

My 7yo keeps asking if we are going to have heart attack at Thankgiving this year. Last year we had hardtack while studying the pilgrims. He also calls semis (the big trucks), termites. Our goats have wobbles (wattles) and he likes milking their gutters (udders).

 

My 2yo asks for mole (guacamole). She also asks for more when she hasn't had any yet. If you are in her way and she needs past, she yells in a loud voice "Excuse you!" All meat is either steak or chicken depending on shape. She also prefers homemade oreos over cheesecake and cooked cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower are her most favorite things in the world to eat. She is such a funny little person.

 

Melinda

[dirty ethel rackham]

DD insisted that it was Whinnie A Pooh instead of Whinnie THE pooh. My oldest called his blue blanket "Blue B" and it had to go everywhere. When I bought a white one as a fill in for the blue one, he insisted that the White B go to gamma's and we keep the Blue B. My middle son would call his brother Barkie instead of Mark.

 

One of the funniest ones was my nephew. I was babysitting him and he kept whining at the refrigerator for a "green one." We went through every thing until we figured out that he wanted a popsicle. However, there weren't any green Popsicle. He had a fit when we closed the freezer door, dragged a chair over and grabbed a root-beer flavored popsicle and proudly proclaimed "GREEN ONE." Nope, he wasn't color blind, but that was his word for popsicle.

[Parrothead]

When my oldest was little, at mass she thought our priest's name was " Beata God" because we always say "thanks be to God".

Oh, dd thought Fr. Rob was God. I'd forgotten all about that.

[She]

LOL! My oldest daughter always wanted to wear "heehiles" (high heels) and her dad worked at the hop-sit-al.

 

Our third daughter couldn't say her K's so she said here titty, titty, titty

 

Our 5 yo boy still says that daddy works at the host-i-ble

[Barry Goldwater]

Hippo-mo-potamus

[Lawana]

Dgd, 3, says panpake for pancake, and now all of us say it that way, too.

Muse-kit for music, sun cream for sun screen, lickish for licorice.

Dd used to say bomber for bottom and lollow for yellow─for ds yellow was yeyow.

[Lara in Colo]

smarmellows ~~~~marshmallows

 

piders~~~ spiders

 

Pony hairs ~~ pony tail

 

hair ponys~~ rubber band for the pony tail (try keeping THOSE streight)

 

 

 

I find that they STOP saying these right about the time you have been converted.

My mother still calls garbage 'grotchep'

I still call spiders 'piders', and hair bands 'hair ponys'

 

Lara

[mommytobees]

These are (mostly) so clean!!!

 

Ky couldn't say the 'tr' sound, it always came out as 'f'. He loved trucks. "Mama, ook, f- ucks, mama, f- ucks."

 

We have lots of stories like that.

 

My daughter loved Strawberry Shortcake. Only she said, Strawberry Who recake. (take out the space)

 

Kris

[ereks mom]

gibby for spaghetti (no idea, but BOTH of my kids said it that way)

 

ER said:

mingus for music

printzel for pretzel

effalunt for elephant

 

EK said:

pampank for pancake

broccomole for guacamole (got it mixed up with broccoli)

babbet for blanket

 

There were SO many more, but those are the ones I can think of right off the top of my head.

[ereks mom]

It's not something he mispronounced, but something he misunderstood. ER was barely 3 the first time we took him to see the 4th of July fireworks show here in our small town. We spread a blanket on the ground and watched. He was SO excited! After each pop, he would clap his hands and shout, "Do it again, God!" We hated to tell him that God wasn't doing it; people were. :lol:

[Ginevra]

Our third daughter couldn't say her K's so she said here titty, titty, titty

:lol::lol::lol: Oh. My. Word!!!!

 

My dd used to call the restaurant Bob Evans, "Bob's Heaven".

Instead of saying "each other", she said, "our juther". As in, "We like to play with our juther."

Both my olders called lightning, "Light-Ling". DD only just stopped doing this about a year or two ago. :tongue_smilie:

 

My little ds called popsicles, "Popeye-Cycles".

 

My nephew calls his brother, whose name is Carter, "Nu-nu". :confused:His mom has no idea where that came from, but that's what he says.

[Pata]

My 8 yo dd used to call pork chops, pork jobs. I crack up everytime I make them because of her!

[Diane in CO]

Some of our favorites:

 

Fuddruckers "Fun wreckers" ....the rest of us loved it so much we all call it Fun wreckers now too.

 

Dirth day (Birthday)

Ya ya's (bananas)

Gawanas (Gorillas)

hocticopter (helicopter)

[CandaceC]

bathing SOUP = bathing suit :lol:

 

hand CUPS = hand cuffs

 

Those are my favorite 2 that my youngest said for the longest time, in fact, he still thinks hand cuffs are hand cups. :) Love it!!

[Dawn in OH]

My nephew calls his brother, whose name is Carter, "Nu-nu".

 

Before Owen could say Owen he said "Nu-nu". It was cute and it stuck. We all sometimes call him Nu-Nu. My mom just asked the other day way it is we call him that.

[Diane in CO]

Oh, forgot to mention one of my favorites....Mohog...as in "Mom when I grown up can I have my hair in a Mohog" :D