Children’s mispronunciations which have stuck.

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My son said ‘macamori’ instead of macaroni when he was younger. The whole family still refer to it as macamori, years later.

My friends son would ask for a ‘dinky dous’ when he wanted a drink of juice. We still say that now.

Any similar children’s mispronunciation’s which the whole family have adopted as their own?

Tomorrow we have a bug day. DD thought it was insect day not inset day and it stuck

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Truck Road (trunk road, ds has always been fascinated with maps)

Not a mispronounciation, but a term made up be DS when he couldn’t remember the real word. “Cow sieve” for cattle grid.

DD (now 7) used to say "leafers" instead of leaves. We still say "leafers" now. When she was about 3 she said to DM, "I know it is really leaves, but Mummy likes it when I say leafers!"

DS is only 2.5 so he has lots of these. My current favourite is "hy-nena" instead of hyena.

Persketti - spaghetti
Sunbrella - garden umbrella

And the most recent

Box of shorts - boxer shorts

Unofoon - Vodafone

DS now 9, called the washing machine the wash bean. We still call it that now!

Tritcherlator for refrigerator
Hostipol for hospital
Gespetti for spaghetti

Those words have been in our family for 29 years 🤦🏻‍♀️

Conserve-a-trois = conservative.

Not a toddler, but a friend not from the UK pronounced Clitheroe as Clit hero. and it will always be known as this.

Sorry, that should be conservatory not conservative

Zappa for the TV remote control.

We have bugs and noodles for pins and needles. Ds1 age 4. I think this one will stick

Oh, and we had corn on the cod - corn on the cob too!

Wahwees for trousers
Carpalator for calculator
Rainbows for eyebrows

Bearing in mind the creator of these is now 17..

Dd1 is known to us all as Dodies as her baby brother couldnt pronounce" Rosie".

Drench-coat (trench coat)
Criss cross (moth)
Shrimp wrap (shrink wrap)

Oh I love threads like these!

We have loads, some that have stuck around for 25+ years, some used almost daily still, even by extended family:

• chacklicks for chapstick, along with my licks are chacked
• livernoom for living room
• lasterday for yesterday
• under-ella for umbrella
• zreba/zurreba for zebra
• lee my lone for leave me alone
• forkhead for forehead
• fucky tied chicken for KFC
• Keffen for Kevin
• poop in my basket for screwed myself over/really stepped in it

--- (that's a fun one because DD's friend once didn't get to have an Easter basket because she'd, well, done a poo in it! Her mum said "Tell her why you didn't bring your gift over" to which she replied, very quietly "I poop in my basket"!)

Yes, we're immature in this family!

constructions for instructions here :)

My 16 yo teenager still says "utivity" room. We got him from "nativity" room but it seems we'll never quite manage "utility".

@Rarotonga2

constructions for instructions here :)

It’s destruction for construction here. So “look, a destruction site! I played in the destruction corner at kindergarten today”.

Probably more accurate, to be honest.

Ossidges and sishsingers. Storebegries and oginges. All still used even though the DC are 15 and 14 😊

Shitalled rather than shield

Mimra rather than mirror

Tricerapops in our house instead of triceratops lol

Anything on the large side is maffice

@Rshard

We still say cupincum - cucumber and salad sauce - salad cream. Dd is almost 16.

I think I've just been cured of my lifelong love of salad cream