My DD made up the best word.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Unoptionally. Basically Hobson's choice. Forced to.

What a great word.

@doodlejump1980 We still call elbows "arm corners" after a similar incident where toddler DS1 forgot the word elbow

My nephew asked me to draw a 'squircle' on his arm 'like a superhero'. I assume maths lessons on shape....

Whilst walking past a stables with a row of horse boxes outside DS, prob around 2.5 said " ooohhhh look at all the horse caravans"

Love these. My three year old helping to put away shopping: "Where do I put the salad meatballs?" (Brussel sprouts)

From this moment forward unoptionally and sunbrella shall be used in this household. Many thanks.

@AnUnlikelyCombination

Living these. Rather specific, but dd named the last remaining cannelloni in the dish, the cannellonely.

My favourite.

I used to attempt to apply sunscream on the DCs as toddlers.

Dd got out of the bath and said she was wet down to get leg wrists. (Ankles)

My DS tries to tell me that unluck is a thing, i.e. bad luck DS.

Mine has "nonline" for home school lessons that are not online.

DD called cucumber greencumber.

When DD was little she coined the word 'leg-pits', ie the backs of your knees, like arm pits. Totally logical.

"armbow" = elbow, "eyeblinks" = eyelashes

No bookcases in this house, just story cases!

My 13 year old has speech and language disorder so sometimes her words do come out muddled. She’s got a ‘bundled up’ nose this week. I asked her if she meant bunged up but she was certain it is bundled, like when you shove your jumper in a bag and it’s bundled up!

Ds used to call windscreen wipers 'window skelpers'

DS2's contributions:
For-ages= like forever, but taking ages
Constructions= the instructions for building a Lego model

Just on parasol and "pararains" - parasol is Spanish for "for sun" and the Spanish word for umbrella is "paraguas" which means "for waters".

@MrsTerryPratchett

Unoptionally. Basically Hobson's choice. Forced to.

What a great word.

Hobsons Choice

1 :an apparently free choice when there is no real alternative. 2 : the necessity of accepting one of two or more equally objectionable alternatives.

my grand daughters slippers have horse-y- corns on

Unoptionally and voluntold are different in meaning from compulsory even though the result is the same. It's when someone with power makes you do something while implying it's voluntary but don't let you not volunteer.

@WeAreTheHeroes, yes, you beat me to it. I love the use of compound words in Spanish- el cubrecama ( bedcover), el abrecartas ( letter opener), but sunbrella is delightful and I'm using that forever more.
I've just woken up wondering why we have no milk for tea and instead am discussing Spanish compound words !!
This thread is lovely BTW.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Or trousers have "leg sleeves". Jumpers have "arm sleeves". This is from DD2 being a toddler, and I think its rather logical.

She also renamed bedside tables as bedtime tables... again logical, its everything she needed at bedtime.

In German, gloves are ‘hand shoes’.

Love all these!

Not just a word, but when she was full a dd used to say she was ‘stuffed to the highest heaven’.

Another fab Spanish word is sombrero which means hat, but literally means "shader", i.e. something which shades.

@FurryGiraffe we had 'destructions' for instructions, as the complete opposite to your 'constructions' - which tells you rather a lot about DS as a toddler (and nothing has changed!)