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)

We go to the local ARTS centre for various things. Of course, DD1 calls it the ARSE centre...

Good grief some people need to lighten up. The N word is horrible coming from someone old enough to know what it means. But this is a TODDLER mispronouncing a word, FGS. No ill-intent. Toddlers do struggle to pronounce words and sometimes what they come out with is inappropriate and embarrassing if anyone overhears. That's funny. Jeez.

(ds used to say cock for clock and something that sounded horribly like fuck you for thank you so I feel your pain. Thank heavens we never discussed snooker...)

Edam I agree, about no ill intent but don´t see the humour in the word "niggar".

Cock for clock, arse for arts, yes.

Mine used to mispronounce the NInky Nonk as the Niggy Nonk, which meant a lot of loud talking over him whenever the subject came up...
It is funny because it's little kids unknowinly saying taboo words, whether that's 'nigger' or 'fuck' or 'cunt'.

diddl, it's not the word that's funny, it's the hideous embarrassment that ensues.

diddl I'd assume it was more of an inappropriate 'funny' as in 'Oh my God, that's terrible, what are we going to do about this' kind of nervous laughter, rather than 'wow, that's the funniest thing I have heard all week, wait until I tell my friends'. Obviously there is no humour in the word 'niggar'.

Just my assumption though.

Your assumption is correct Psammead, we don't find the word itself used in the correct context funny at all.
It often sounds like she's saying "Knicker" too but the pronunciation is so similar its cringeworthy.
As it happens she has been having some intensive language therapy this afternoon including many "oo" words so by the end of the wkd no one will need worry that she may be misheard.
Equally I would have sniggered if she had mispronounced something else that sounded like a swear word.

A friend's little boy learned the word "crunch" - except that he pronounced it as another one syllable word beginning with C!
And shouted it loudly and repeatedly at his elderly grandmother.

When my niece was about 22 months she would ask for blackcurrant juice by saying 'blackcunt please'........I was horrifed that my brother would give her such sugary drinks

Whoa! Intensive language therapy at 22 months! Really. Shit. DS is 22 months and barely scrapes a "Daddy". Should he be getting intensive language therapy? . Mind you CM has special needs training and doesn't seem to think there is a problem, and she can be pretty blunt.

I remember dd hurting her foot when she was around 2, she limped around shouting 'foot off! foot off!' but it sounded like something else She only wanted me to take her sock off so she could examine her 'poorly.' But the old ladies in the debenhams handbag department weren't impressed...

She also liked to 'rhyme' nonsense words when she was around 3, leading to the unforgettable 'snacky, whacky, lacky, packy' incident.

She has not yet applied to be a member of the BNP, perhaps that will come in time...

:o @ poppymouse

It was only me getting her to repeat as many "oo" words as I could think of. Not hot-housed or anything :)

She has no choice in our house when it comes to talking, me & DS suffer from terminal verbal diarrhoea, DH mocks us constantly for it. (In a supportive way of course)

honestly, clear as anything thats what she'd say. She's 17 now, one day I may remind her!

Thank you for explaining MeelooMouloo. I've rebuffed the HV (they are notoriously wrong about everything aren't they? Whatever they suggest do the opposite and you'll get along fine) a couple of times when they accused him of delayed speech at about 1 year! But if he doesn't get busy with the chit chat soon I'll have to eat humble pie, won't I? That would be bitter indeed. He is clearly a smart kid, he is probably plotting something.

He's prob of the same mind as DH, don't say anything unless it's worth saying.

That's his theory & he sticks to it.

Generally I don't think anything he says is worth saying unless it relates to getting me chocolate/ice-cream/Jack Daniels etc.

Haha I'm nearly crying here!!

DD3 doesn't really say anything that sounds rude although she was sitting on the sofa this morning babbling away and it sounded like...

"Simba (cat 1) punch doggy and lucy (cat 2) punch doggy and mummy punch doggy and daddy punch doggy and me punch doggy"

I have got NO idea what she was on about

When I asked if she was saying punch doggy she looked up in a thinking manner and said "ermmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeah"

I think I'm going to have to keep a careful watch over the dog

Not really a problem with pronunciation but embarrassing none the less - when we were on holiday we popped in the indoor pool as she wanted to try every pool. Only me, her, one couple and their kid in there. Their kid is wearing a red all in one sun suit and has long curly hair. After about 5 mins this kid gets out and starts getting changed. Well it turns out it was a little boy. DD starts SHOUTING 'it's a girl with a willy! Mummy mummy that girl has a willy!!' which was echoing round and this massive indoor pool! She was only 3 but i couldn't whisk her away quick enough!

YABU its funny..... DS says I CUNT do it

I think I jinxed myself posting on here last night. Went out for a meal at a pub called The fox this afternoon. They had a stuffed fox in a display case and she proceeded to shout "Oooh fok, look more fok" at the top of her voice

DSD pointing at the sky - 'HAIRY COCKER, HAIRY COCKER' - was of course a helicopter - we laughed until we cried and she refused to say it again for months

My ds saw an old man and woman walking slowly towards us. just as we drew level, he loudly commented 'oh look mum, those old people will be dead soon!'

Ds is obsessed with cars and started naming them at an early age. Dh and I were driving along when ds shouted "FUCKING WANKER". Dh and I had a nice little row over who swore infront of him and then carried on as normal. The next day in the car "FUCKING WANKER" is shouted again. Then "FUCKING CAR", then WENNOO WANKER". Putting al these together we realised he was saying "Volkswgon Van Car".

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