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What words mispronounced by children have become parts of your family's vocabulary?

252 replies

Flakjacketon · 24/07/2023 13:48

We have 3:
Nuggut- yoghurt
Sniggle - signal
Plumps - plums

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TenTree · 24/07/2023 13:51

Incredibly outing if my family read this…

Random and comes up so VERY rarely but:
Shoemaker - Shoo-i-macker
Monopoly - mono-polly

goes off to name change

SarahLHs · 24/07/2023 13:53

Otay - okay
Hobob - Hobnob

Mexicansky · 24/07/2023 13:54

Hoss buns - hot cross buns
Hostible - hospital

dotdotdot3 · 24/07/2023 13:55

Hopsquiggle - hospital
Squeakheart/Squeaky -sweetheart/sweety

pollykitty · 24/07/2023 13:55

aminal for animal
swimming googles for swimming goggles
😊

tabbycat985 · 24/07/2023 13:56

Delicious is Aaaaa-lishious & absolutely no one can pronounce it any differently😂

Hugasauras · 24/07/2023 13:56

Noodihorn for unicorn, cupacumber for cucumber, peesh for peach!

MonkeyPuddle · 24/07/2023 13:56

Sammagees - sandwiches
Happle - apple

MonkeyPuddle · 24/07/2023 13:57

Oh and horsey corn for unicorn

Marmite27 · 24/07/2023 13:57

Bedtime table for bedside table
Glassles for glasses
hanitiser for hand sanitiser

sillywordsnamechange · 24/07/2023 13:58

Travelling on the Piggywilly line. (Piccadilly) 3 year old misheard it and it stuck.
Ditto same child aged 6 misreading holiday destination - Izzly Wiggit. (Isle of Wight).

tootiredtobother · 24/07/2023 13:59

chicken norton - Chipping Norton
hopipul - hospital

angieb89 · 24/07/2023 13:59

Gibbous - biscuit
Tabaux- spider

saveforthat · 24/07/2023 14:01

Marks and Spencive (Marks and Spencer)

KohlaParasaurus · 24/07/2023 14:06

To pelican = to pester
Speen as the plural of spoon
Bat for babygro (after my mother saw a row of babygros hanging by the feet on my washing line)

BoogLoaf · 24/07/2023 14:06

My son used to love a ducked dicken from Mollylands

a cooked chicken from Morrisons

Sosbanfachtheresatellyinmybath · 24/07/2023 14:06

Snotrils for nostrils.
Minging for penguin.

GingerTulip · 24/07/2023 14:13

Koalala - koala
Ho-bell - hotel
Bollo-aaaaaise - bolognese

Some Thai pronunciations of odd words (Brits living in Thailand) e.g. strawberry is sa-taw-bell-eeee and apple is ap-pehn, always in a sing-song voice). Also much confusion between Burma and Birmingham 😂

Babymamma192 · 24/07/2023 14:13

Walking diffs = walkers crisps
Crowbon = Programme
Hair a corn = unicorn
Adfarts = adverts
Farties = smarties

bagforlifeamnesty · 24/07/2023 14:14

Hopptycopter - helicopter

oldwhyno · 24/07/2023 14:16

Titty Room - Utility Room

bookworm14 · 24/07/2023 14:18

‘Netflakes’ for Netflix.

LMNT · 24/07/2023 14:19

We have loads of mash up words because we are a bilingual family and the origin is from young DD mixing the languages. They won’t make sense but we do have a couple of English language ones:

Pinsketti- spaghetti
Irregardless as someone we don’t like says it

not wrong but not right meeeecroooowavaaayyyy thanks to Nigella.

cocksstrideintheevening · 24/07/2023 14:19

Ambliance - ambluance

Nipple bowl - bra

Pinaform - pinafore

Tarkan · 24/07/2023 14:19

We go shopping in Mossissons Grin