for feeling guilty about thinking this is funny..

[MeelooMouloo]

DD is 22mths and trying to pronounce "snooker". However it comes out sounding like either "nicker" or worse "niggar".

Feel really guilty for sniggering at this, it's just so wrong.

(just for the record I am not some crazed neo-nazi/facist/racist or any other label along these lines.....just sounds funny when she says it)

Have you ever seen Michael McIntyre's stand up about his young son learning something bad (quite accidentally!).
It's very funny, and you're obviously not alone.

Is that the jews/juice thing? Found that really funny. Know its normal but do feel little guilty for finding it so funny.
Would be mortified if she started shouting it in Asda

I don't have an opinion on this but I feel like you are in for a flaming, my darlin'. :)

I cant believe you just dropped the 'N' bomb up in here.. lol

YABU! It's funny so don't feel guilty

I don't see why you should feel guilty, you wouldn't find it funny if she was older and understood it, it's only because it's considered similar to swearing and it's accidental. I think it's also because they're so innocent, and we're a bit shocked! At the end of the day, it's just sounds to her. Obviously encourage her to say it properly, but you can't tell her off for getting it wrong, that would be unfair, since it's only the meaning we apply to the word that is wrong, and she doesn't know that yet.

I once pointed out a clock to my nephew, he screeched 'cock, cock!' for about half an hour. I tried to correct him, but I just don't think his speech was sophisticated enough, they tend to pick up on the key sounds.
I just found it funny, as did the American woman behind me on the bus :)

Unless you think it's a funny word to use in general, I wouldn't worry about it.

Did worry bout actually saying the N word (don't like it by the way..horrible).
DH & I keep breaking the word down into sounds which she repeats correctly, just can't put them together. Give it a week or so and hopefully she'll crack it and I can shop in safety without a racist baby :)

Haha loved that McIntyre juice/jews thing (combined with the telling the old lady he was called Adolf and the toddler group stuff) I laughed my arse off.

Ds provided mucho embarrasment with his pronunciation of makka pakka

Little git, when a bloke passing in a wheelchair passed by, he shouted "That man is dead" fgs, if ear clipping was allowed these days, he would have been severely clipped of ear.

3 year olds are not PC.

all kids say something embarrassing... my dd announced very loudly in toys r us that she 'doesn't want a brown baby, she only likes the white ones!' me, dp and the whole shop were like this >>>>>> shock]

we pointed out to dd that she is a brown baby and she said 'yes but that dolly is blacker than you daddy'

i hastily said in a very loud voice that 'most children like the white ones because they are the ones in the adverts that cry and poo in their nappies and i blame the advertisers'

I used to look after a boy who had trouble with the 'TH' and 'N' sounds. You used to give him something and he would politely say "fuck you".

Oh god, I would pull this OP if I were you or hope it slides down the AIBU list quickly and drops off the end of the earth.

I know you don't mean to be offensive and yes kids say things but why post about it using the N word? Why????

:o Tiggt, a child we used to know, when she was about three, used to politely say "Wank you" when given something nice. :o

DS1 (3) can't pronouce "Tr" and unluckily for us we saw a Dump Truck in a shop yesterday - top of his voice he shouts "Dum Fuck" - cringeworthy but very funny!

I meant to add - perhaps don't point any snooker tables out in shops for a while, until she gets the hang of it

when my dd was at the babbeling stage she was shouting this out all over the place- it was mortifying-luckily she moved on to daddy soon enough!

Is there anyone who hasn't been through the clock/cock thing with a child? So funny!

oh dear i sort of don't think that's funny

sorry

My ds has been telling our dog and actually, any dog he sees in the street to shit for months now.

SHIT down! Goo Boy!

I had a little mindee who used to pronounce "fork please" in a very unfortunate / amusing manner at the dinner table!

I have a video of DS at around 15 months; he had just learned that he could make things happen by pressing buttons on the TV remote, so we started taking the batteries out when we weren't watching.
In the video DS picks up the remote, presses buttons, and when nothing happens, he says something that sounds exactly like 'bugger'

It couldn't really be that, though could it, I mean who could he possibly have picked that up from.....?

OP, why is "niggar" funny?

Walking down the high street with DD when she was about 2 and a half...she starts shouting BUGGER, me BUGGER at the top of her voice. Turns out she had seen Macdonalds and wanted a BURGER. .

My son can't say truck, so we have:

Dumper fuck, breakdown fuck, fork-lift fuck, tipper fuck and my favourite, pick-up fuck :)