When Magoo asks for a geek, I get him some jews.
When my friend’s daughter asks for her hippy, she prefers the valveless variety with no handles.
This morning Magoo is dining on jews, chi, and faffles.
What are some of your favorite childish mispronunciations?
“Fingums” was handed down from one sibling to the next for all four kids, my niece Kassidy was called “Baby Sassidy” by my two youngest ones, my son “weawy wiked” certain things when he was 3, and my newest favorite came from our recent road trip. “Mommy, are we going to spend the night in “Albaturkey again?”
That’s easy–Dawson sitting on Scott’s shirdles. One time Aidan dared to ask for a ride and Dawson got very upset. “No, Daddy! YOU’RE SHIRDLES ARE MINE!”
my neice always says “bet-a-kee” for spaghetti, now thats what we call call it when we eat it around her. sooooo cute.
I’m sad that Monkey no longer refers to his favorite transformer (Optimus) as Octomus. Because I had worked out a REALLY kick-butt song about Octomus, the transforming octopus.
Sit! While Soren was learning to talk, I carried around a notebook of all the words he said, including the pronunciation. I just went to look for it, and realized it was the same notebook I wrote my shopping list in, which I left at Costco a month or so ago. I think I might cry.
Oh, here’s one, they always ask for a “kiddy back ride.” I had trouble just now remembering the real way to say it.
My 21 month old train obsessed boy says “mmm mmm” for trains. So cute. The three year old says “Ready, Steady, Go!” and calls pepperonis “macaroni”. She loves her some macaroni pizza.
My sister would make up words when she didn’t know what something was called. One day, she asked my mom for her “goobers”. Mom had no idea what she was talking about, but I joined in: “Yeah, Mom, her goobers!” Sarah pulled Mom to the closet and pointed at her skates on the top shelf. “Oh, you want your skates?” Mom asked. “Yeah, Mom, my skates.” Well, duh!
My daughter always wants her dad to make “pantycakes” on Saturday mornings for breakfast.
My 2 year old niece sings The Bis-tee Bis-tee Spider. I giggle just typing that.
Charlie used to insist that everything that had occurred before today happened “yesternight,” which I loved for its Shakespearean quality.
When Caedmon was younger, he was facinated with frogs. But I’m not going to type out the word he used instead of “frog” because this is a G rated blog. We tried not to bring the little green things up in public conversation so as to avoid mortification.
Let’s see most recently she asked me if it was dribbling outside, when it was lightly raining. Then she wants her nails painted with poll nailish. And somewhere along the way she quit asking for pannicakes for breakfast and for an underbrella when it was dribbling outside. They grow up too quick!!!! waaaah!!!
Dashing through the snow in a “hor-pin-sewn-sleigh”, that was my favorite song my daughter sang, and then she learned how to say it the right way. It was still cute, but I loved the hor-pin-sewn-sleigh ever so much. My niece called me Banissa for a while, I was so so sad when she figured out that my name is Melissa. And same niece once told her mom to “belax”. My sister couldn’t say the “k” sound, instead she said the “t” sound. Needless to say my aunt, Kitty, did not like how my sister pronounced her name. I could go on for hours!!
Sh** equals shirt. I never thought a swear word could sound so cute.
Susan reminded me that Noah used to say “last day,” then “lasterday” before he ever said “yesterday.” He also had a problem with his l’s. So my brother Alex was Owlex, and Halloween was Howloween. Soren does the same thing now, and also says eeootmeeoo for oatmeal.
I thought of another one. My 2-yr-old BIL calls my DH “Seff” (Jeff) which is ironic because my brother’s name is Seth and the two are so similar it’s scary. Also, this isn’t a mispronunciation, but the same sweet BIL calls his sister Jessica “Mike” because that’s her DH’s name, and he calls Jeff “Erin” because it’s my name. We’re working on him calling Jess and Jeff by their correct names.
Oh, Magoo has started refering to shampoo as “poop”. Nice. I love the lasterday. Laylee still uses that sometimes. Lasterday or lastertime. Ah, the unbearable cuteness.
Some of our favorites:
Flutterbee (we like this better than the original word, butterfly)
Razzabee
Breffkast
Pinayo
Oytota (there’s a pattern here…)
Eeefeeem (that would be “ice cream” to the rest of us)
Gramoofabits (OK, that came from a movie…ET)
Original spellings are also nice, when they get to that stage. Our daughter labeled a 5-gallon jug “wotr”.
“Indies” for “undies” (underpants)
When my youngest was about one, he couldn’t say ice cream, but he would make really loud slurping noises every time he saw some or a picture of an ice cream cone. Now he is three and he says usgusting instead of disgusting.
One that comes to mind right now is the little boy in my mom’s day out class that calls the other teacher Mooey…her name is Mary 🙂
My middle child used to say his F’s as SH. The word Football never sounded profane before 😉
One of my favorites of Laylee’s was “gwaf-gwaf” for washcloth.
Gankie = Blankie
K (the k sound) = drink
I could tell you but it’s too long–Posted about it here:
http://scribbit.blogspot.com/2006/05/my-familys-most-commonly-mispronounced.html
if you’re interested.
We have been trying to get The Boy to talk for a while now and of course he says Da Da but never Ma Ma until recently but I am not Ma Ma but ooluooluoolu, kind of like a war cry. I have no idea where this came from but that is my new name.
My favorite is calipitter.
Heth (#11), my son used to talk about frogs the same way. His preteen boy cousins thought it was the funniest thing imaginable.
Cheerios = dodos
Rice Krispies = ky-peas
My kid doesn’t talk enough to have funnies like these! 🙂 Can’t wait til he does, though!
When it is cold, my daughter puts on a “schweater” and likes to eat “wassols” for breakfast.
She likes to “doomp” from the “touch” onto “polos.”
Her baby brother eats from his mama’s “boots.”
After watching “Chicken Little” she likes to say over and over, “Sky schwallin”
banova bars- granola bars. My 4yo cracks me up.
That reminds me of “gorilla bars” for granola bars.
What a fun share-time post.
My two year olds “isms”:
Douy – food (I have no idea what inspired that one but it’s been around the longest)
isepi – Pepsi
azipa – pizza (he seems to like saying thing backwards)
baby monkeys, daddy monkeys, mommy monkeys – what he calls the zoo (always in that order)
take-y – give it to me, pick me up, etc.
Hy-you – his name for his brother Ewan, I guess we said “say ‘hi’ to Ewan” too often
mo-tyke-o – motorcycle (I have no idea how to reproduce the way he says helicopter)
There are more and I’ll miss them when they go.
I can’t really think of any!
Sugar does always tell me “That’s yehs mom.” (Yours) It’s cute.
OH, i got one. OPIMEAL (Sounds like opium sometimes) for oatmeal.
My daughter loves “pips” (chips) and “zizza” (pizza). I’d share her pronunciation for fork, but I’m afraid the filter would catch it. 😉
When my daughter was three, she chastised my husband when he swore at another driver. She told him “you shouldn’t say that because you are my “heerio” and “heerios” don’t say those words!”
Now five, she is telling her brother aboout the Higglytown Heerios!
Anna has a pretty good vocabulary for a 1.5 yr old.
My favorites are:
says – means
coke – cold
peas – please
tant tu – thank you
ish – fish
Ungrella for umbrella
mewsgik for music
hoog for hood
moak for milk
nack for snack
jims for gym
I should be able to think of more with my four kiddos, but that is all I have for now. I love the “heerio” story from Amanda, that is great!
When I was little the “tr” sound always came out like an “f”. So imagine my uncle’s amusement when during a parade the fire trucks came along!
Yellwowo = E-I-E-I-O
Ga-Ga-Gi Ah Tar = Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Fr-Fr-Fra = Scrub, or Spill
Di-Ah-Ga = Backyardigans
Shi-Shi = Lambsie
Greek = Drink
Sew = Snow
I could go on forever. I think my two year old pronounces all of 5 words correctly. Two of which being Soccer and Ball, don’t ask me why.
Dah-doos = Stroller when daughter was about 20 months old.
Now that she is 3,
breakfast = breckchist,
Christmas= Chrimshris
supposed to = upsosed to
So cute!
“snowflegs” fall in winter, and you eat “brefkast” in the morning! That is, according to Kaia, who’s five. Strangely enough, she can say “what do you see out of your peripheral vision?” just fine….go figure…
Chico says “Fass!” for Thanks, and when we point to a Cat and he happily exclaims, “Cak!” it totally makes my day.
I have more.
Brekess=breakfast for Soren
breksose= breakfast for Noah
gukh=juice, drink, water, etc.
ice-cat=Isaac
muse-cat=music
regular=rackly (regular milk, or soy milk? Rackly milk!)
Weebo wamo=Weebles wobble (this is a noun, ie., I want my weebo wamo.)
motorbycycle- we all use that one now.
another favorite I’m sharing only because someone else shared on like it: my baby girl eats from my nibbles.
I love this post and all the comments! I just keep coming back, picturing all these little kids and their fantastic vocabularies.
My 3 year old son has an old broken bicycle pump that he like to pretend to pump his tires on his scooter. He hasn’t quite figured out how to say pump. So he says, “Mom please come hump me,” and, “Mom can I have the hump?”
Our favorite and longest running is for sure PopPop Hinckley. I love that!
My oldest (now 7) said that in his first prayer and we have been thrilled that all three of my kids have used the same name for “OUR” prophet.
also, this year we heard HO! Ho! Ho! for Santa and All Aboard Book for “Polar Express”
and we still have gorilla bars too, even the 7 yo still mixes that up.
All of my children have called the Living room ‘wig-a-rum’ at some point. #1 Son had the best words & mispronunciations. I can’t say what he said for fork because it’s bordering on obscene. And he called a near by town ‘Effin’bill’ (Evansville). B.B. has issues with the word ‘Uncle’ so instead of Uncle Ed, he has ‘K’Ed’ and in place of Uncle Rick, he has ‘Uh-Rick.’
My daughter calls oatmeal “opa-meal” like she’s eating breakfast in a Greek restaurant.
Anything that happened in the past (Five minutes ago, five days ago, five weeks ago, etc.) happened “nast light”, according to my five-year-old niece.
“gee-ku” – Thank you
“poo-me” – pillow
“hadgot” – forgot (my 5 year old still says this)
“ska-betty” – spaghetti – from my 3 year old
Miles doesn’t say anything yet except, “uh-oh” and “no no” and he never screws those up!
oh and what pops said above is almost better than the mispronunciations. the mispellings as they’re learning to read/write=hilarious fodder for the rest of their lives
“i lik brawnes” … yeah, i like brownies too!