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What's the cutest thing your DC says that's wrong?

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fblake · 01/05/2019 12:52

My DS can't get his head round the word she, he always says her. For example when my DD is crying, DS always says 'her is angry' or 'does her need a clean nappy?' So sweet!

I'd love to hear yours 😊

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Deathraystare · 02/05/2019 14:31

Nephew used to say "Old Gannick" for Organic.

Godson - used to say Ready Deadly Go - (Ready Steady Go) for a race.

twinkletwinklepops · 02/05/2019 20:11

Manatoe = tomatoe
Cumber = cucumber
Smile

toomuchtooold · 02/05/2019 21:06

DD1 called vegetables, sensibles when she was teeny. "Loot mummy I eat all my sensibles".

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DeathMetalMum · 02/05/2019 21:10

Fulham

Dd says it like you'd say West-Ham so she says Full-ham in two words. Really funny the first time she read it when we had the football results on the TV.

Bacardi101 · 02/05/2019 21:11

My DD3 calles boobs ‘goobies’, mummy you have bigger goobies than me Smile

Stabbitha · 02/05/2019 21:13

DD has a remote control dune buggy. She calls it the doom bugger.

Eslteacher06 · 02/05/2019 21:16

Bumbumbees

Piss instead of crisps lol

fblake · 02/05/2019 21:34

These are all so sweet!

Just remembered another one my DS says, piller-piller - caterpillar 😂

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Dizzylin · 02/05/2019 21:38

Headcoat = Hood
Watermelon = Marshmallows

AllGoodDogs · 02/05/2019 21:43

Oh I love these. Mine are older now but my favourites were "macaroni pizza" instead of pepperoni, and "banana bread" with a curry.

AllGoodDogs · 02/05/2019 21:48

Oh, also 6 year old has started saying "oh currently" at the start of sentences. I think he means apparently but he insists he's right!

TrySinging · 02/05/2019 21:49

My DD 5 came home and said 'Mummy, Rachel has jingles - can I have jingles too Mummy?'. I wondered wtf jingles were. Rachel's mum told me the next day that she in fact had 'shingles'. Grin

albazavi · 02/05/2019 21:50

Loving these. DS (just 3) is a good talker but gets such funny ideas in his head.
We have:

Paddington's pool, instead of paddling pool.
Fast awake as well as fast asleep. (Why not?!)
Cuggle instead of cuddle
And similar to the alphabet 'lemon' we have ABCDEFGHI Jacob LMNOP.... because he had a friend called Jacob.

Iputthescrewinthetuna · 02/05/2019 21:52

My 5 year old calls conkers plonkers. She did this for the first time when she was 2. As bad as it is we never corrected her.

Dd aged 3 calls helicopters bebecopa. She can speak really well, gets no other words wrong but just cannot say helicopter!

My 11 year old, when she was 8 called a lawnmower a lawnwomer!

When my 5 year old was 3 she couldn't say watermelon, she said 'wah mlm' she can now say water melon but dp and I still call it wah mlm.

SecondHandTicking · 02/05/2019 22:00

So many lovely posts.

I've remembered another of my favourites: chicken pops for chicken pox.

Accountant222 · 02/05/2019 22:10

Piers - slippers
Ketseat - settee
Spotting to rain

He's 38, I still use these words

Giggorata · 02/05/2019 22:27

DS2 always said B at the beginning of SP words. So we had bath bunches, don't bit, bending money, and best of all, his friend who was called Mark Bensa, and whose mother was Mrs Bensa.

SuddenBeetE · 02/05/2019 22:36

My DS is 3 and if he wants something, asks “I try a little?”
So “I try a little biscuit mummy?” “I try a little wee now please?” “I try the little television?”

6demandingchildren · 02/05/2019 23:42

My youngest is autistic and he says things how they ate spelt like moss-queet-o (mosquito)
And focustrating

ouryve · 02/05/2019 23:52

Currently

Sparks and Spencers.
Panasocket (Panasonic)

This is DS2, who is having his 12 year language explosion :o He's autistic and very late to this talking lark. School have been working on verbs with him but he's using the same few interchangeably, so we "wear" the black car and we "take" the black Sony telly grandma and granddad's. I keep correcting him and sometimes it sticks and then he incorrectly applies the newly digested correction to a new situation!

Imsoforkingangry · 02/05/2019 23:56

My DC are in repception (reception) growing baby chicks in an inkyvator.

arseabouttit · 02/05/2019 23:59

Mutella for Nutella and news for use. He's 7 Hmm eldest used to say bounce-o- line for trampoline, I thought that was cute. He's 14 and has stopped thankfully!

toomuchtooold · 03/05/2019 07:40

Aw, and when they were tiny and they used to not be able to run two consonants together so you got "lippers" for slippers. And I remember "chip" instead of chips. There was a cafe in the park where we would sometimes go and get chips, I didn't make chips in the house and DD1 was quite a fan so as soon as we got to that park she'd start pointing at the café and shouting "CHIP! CHIP!"

Nowadays it's all mistranslations from German, as we live in Germany. "Oh you go me right on the nerves!"

Redact · 03/05/2019 08:36

Toh for hot, so cute. Take over for over take, oh that bad driver take over! constructions for instructions which is apparently a bit of a family trait with a cousin also saying the same

Redact · 03/05/2019 08:37

Oh and le for the

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