My DD made up the best word.

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Unoptionally. Basically Hobson's choice. Forced to.

What a great word.

DS used to call Lego instructions 'constructions'. Always thought this should catch on.

We always say destructions for a laugh!

Yumcious was coined by my then 4 year old.

@ThirdElephant you’re totally missing the point 🤣

Unoptionally is excellent.

When the DC were little we had:

• trampoline = bouncealine
• turtle/tortoise = tortle/turtuss
• cucumber = cumcumber
• other child are nursery pinching = biting with his hands

When DD was little mermaid were 'girl-fish'.
I also look after a little girl who calls unicorns 'hornycorns'

Unoptionally and Voluntold... loving these.
I'm gonna use these on my DH in the next phalf hour 🤣🤣🤣

Just took me 3 minutes.... I just said to my DH 'can I voluntell you to go get milk from the shop?'
He replied 'ooh...do we need a loaf as well?'
I replied 'fantabulous' (a word I use often)
This is working well

We had 'yestertime' for last time and underbeneath

Love sunbrella and oopsidental!

We use constructions for Lego instructions in this house too!

@Donatella

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

DS invented "inbows" for the same thing on your arms.

We have strugglation in the house from DD putting on a pair of super skinny jeans that were 2 sizes too small 🤣 she was super skinny and somehow managed!!

My dd used to say also-ly instead of saying also. I prefer it 😂

Another constructions house here.

Also leg elbows for knees.

We have a consequence tree that makes awful pears (said by small child that tried to eat an unripe uncooked quince straight from the tree)

And anything on the outside of food was "the packet" - so we had to take the packet off apples and bananas as well as off of chocolate. Obviously DS1 has long grown out of this but DS4 was whining about being given a jacket potato this week that he'd unoptionally chosen for tea and I said I could take the packet off if that would make it better and he looked at me as if I were mad.

@ItsReallyOnlyMe

Children are brilliant at inventing new words.

My DS used to call his teddies 'soft blooded animals'. Perfect description.

Oh I love this!

I love threads like this!

Some of my DCs inventions:
Flyspot - ladybird
Countingator - calculator
Oncutor- computer, switched on!
Boringe- brown/red roof tiles

Oopsidentally is my favourite!

A relative of mine said “foot fingers” for toes- that is what they are, after all!

Someone needs to put small children in charge of the dictionary.

@FASDE1517

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

This thread is making me miss the toddler years so much!

@SoupDragon, agreed 'soft blooded animals' and 'cannalonely ' are genius.

Another one in our house - thumb toe(s)

While watching a carnival procession one day a small DC asked impatiently where the dinosaurs were. Some confusion over carnival and carnivore was to blame. To this day around carnival time we say we're off to see the dinosaurs (much to the embarrassment of the now teenager). We were delighted one year when one of the parade WAS a dinosaur - we cornered them later on the carnival field for a family photo

This story may be somewhat outing!

We had " eyelips" for eyelids.

"Toothstring" was dental floss.

Took us ages to work out what DS had been given for lunch at kindergarten - he insisted it was a "short extra". It turned out to be a dumpling.