What is the name of my DS nursery friend?

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DS is 2 nearly 3. His speach is (usually) very articulate. He has never really had "baby talk"

He has been talking about his new friend at nursery. He loves playing with her. He wants her to come for tea. That's great. Except he says her name is Pancake. Which obviously cannot be the case. So what is her name??

There was a baby name thread a while back where someone knew a pancake! It’s better than season though
Ds always says his name is pillow, we have annual passes to places where his name is pillow on them

Ds was shouting about broccoli, I thought it was what he’d had for lunch, nope the women next to me said her sons name is broccoli, although I assume it’s Brock-lee

My son had a friend at school called Gwiff Takka, one day I was talking to his mum and she called him Christopher,

Thought of another, both girls used to call our neighbour Purple, his name was Robert

DGS (3) has a friend called Weewee......spelt Wei Wei apparently; his older brother says his best friend is Vandal - it's actually Vanya (Russian).

My DD spent P1 with a boy called Lasagne. No amount of telling would convince her his name was Fassan.
And wonder what everyone who laughed at my hamster Pancake would make of this.

My grandson (3) talked incessantly about his best friend Croot. We all thought the child was probably of a different culture. Every day he would tell us something about what he and Croot had been doing in school. We had no reason to think anything of this name (Ok we thought it was a bit odd but there are a few ' unconventional' names in his class).

Anyway my daughter asked nursery for a list of names from grandsons year (There are 2 year groups in the class) to write invitations for his 4th birthday party. There was no Croot on the list. DD asked the teacher. She was puzzled and couldn't help. DD wrote the invitations and gave them to the teacher to put in the children's book bags and had to tell grandson that Croot wouldn't be coming to his party. He was devastated 😢

On party day grandson ran up to a little girl shouting, "Croot! Croot! Here's Croot. I told you she would come. Hiya Croot. C'mon let's play".

Ruth! It's Ruth!

For a whole year we had all been calling this little girl Croot!

Sort of along the same lines but from the opposite end. My DD when in Reception came hold on the last day of term to tell me her friend's mummy had had a new baby. I was on 'hello' terms with the mummy but wanted to get a card and a present. Asked DD whether it was a girl or a boy. DD said she didn't know. I can't get a card etc as 30 years ago everything to do with babies was gendered.

6 Weeks later leaving for Year 1 DD announces 'I wonder if Emily will bring baby Matthew to school?' Arrrrrgh. Why didn't I ask what the baby's name was?!?!

This is so funny because my 3 year old does the exact opposite of all these examples - if he meets someone with an unusual name he (purposefully I think) mishears it and calls them a more generic name. I find it odd because at that age how is he to know which names are unusual ... but it’s what he does. Earlier this week he insisted on calling someone “Sarah” when the real name was a lot more exotic.

Is baby kiwi really

Kealeigh?

@Bawdrip Santa! That's hilarious, I even said it out loud to hear the Xander! 😂😂 I'm still laughing.

This thread! @EveryFlightBeginsWithAFall Broccoli!! 😂😂

When she was a toddler my DD insisted that her friend's new baby sister was called Organ (Morgan)

Oh my goodness I have sat and read through all of the replies. I never expected so many! Absolutely hilarious. Kids are bloody funny. Although saying that, my neighbour who I've known for 12 years insists my name is Nikka like knickers. It's not. It's not Nicole, Nicola either. It does have the "IK" sound in it but does not start with N or end in A.

Loving this thread!
Brings back memories, when DS was at nursery he was adamant he wanted 'Babybel and Penis' to come to his party.
After a lot of digging turns out it was
'Maybelle' and 'Happiness' (little African girl)
That was an interesting conversation with his teacher

Antsey was of course, Nancy. DD loves her.

Row da boat is the best and is the kind of nickname that sticks into adulthood round here and nobody can remember what the origin was.

To be fair, Keith is a better name than Brian. Could you imagine a baby called Brian?

All the posters laughing at the very idea of a toddlers being called Keith or Peter or Brian... You do realise that your in vogue names for your children will be incredibly dated in 30 years time too?

All the posters laughing at the very idea of a toddlers being called Keith or Peter or Brian... You do realise that your in vogue names for your children will be incredibly dated in 30 years time too?

Well duh. I’m middle-aged and I’d raise an eyebrow at a baby called by my (fairly common) first name. There’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just incredibly dated. Fashion is a funny thing.

All the posters laughing at the very idea of a toddlers being called Keith or Peter or Brian... You do realise that your in vogue names for your children will be incredibly dated in 30 years time too?

Yes, but everyone with that name will be 30+ years old and the new toddlers will be called something else.

I am crying laughing at the misheard names.
Ronnie and Reggie the twins though..... mad or bad ...what on God’s earth made them choose those ?

Here in Wales Morgan doesn’t rhyme with organ.

When my friend was little and had just started reception she went home telling her mum that she had made friends with a girl called Evil. Her name was Eve.

DD (3) told me all about her friend Peach that she was playing with at the park. She insisted it was definitely Peach.

I asked her older brothers who'd been at the park, eventually figuring out it was actually Paige.