not to correct DS2's pronunciation of sphere

[Ormirian]

when he says it as 'sefia' ?

Tis making me laugh quite a lot

Oh yes and when did they start teaching children about 'vertices'? I must be really thick but I didn't know what they were until DS1 told me.

I bet you didn't correct him though did you mumbar? :o

Mine used to say Lighting A'Queen which I quite liked but he's stopped recently.

We have bredroom, pretrol and trildren here too :)

my dd (2) says
a wee an a poo ( winnie the pooh)
Cu umer (cucumber)
trampeen (trampoline)
bic kit (biscuit)
glub (glove) my fave

and she calls my ds charlie. His name is nowhere near the name Charlie.. lol ! Thats stuck ! haha!

Fablious. And ridiclious. All variations thereupon. Love them! I'm not actually sure if DD still says 'phewf' when she's relieved about something, but I certainly do.

Minkeys were my favourite when she was littler. Like Inspector Cluseau.

At christmas Away in a manger was sang as
the little old jesus asleep in the hay ..lol !

Love these. It's so hard to correct them ...

My DCs are both into Harry Potter and were really unhappy when 'Serious Black' died.

Growing out of it now but
lello for yellow;
chi-chi-chihuahua (extra chi-chi)
pushion (cushion)
both of mine struggle with the sound 'hue' so thuman; thuge comes out instead.

ds is 3, and has been obsessed with diceynors (dinosaurs) for ages. Only now he says dinosaurs, and pulls up the rest of us for continuing to say diceynors Even the dds (7 and 5) were sad when he started to say it properly

I loved the way dd2 (5) sayes "nused" as in "Mum, remember when we nused to go to nursery?" I'm letting that stay as long as possible

how do you all prounce sphere then? i thought sefia was pretty spot on?

Sfia Chippy

DS says elestricity, amamals and OK is 'okayp'. Not sure where the rogue p has come from!

Hittopotamus.

YANBU

Proooter = computer
loop hole= Loo roll
Doo up = ketchup

and very many more...........

Oldest DC is 18, youngest 9 months.

No hope here then.

We had "ventapillar" for temperature. DD1 can say it now but it will always be ventapillar in our house. Ditto breakbits (breakfast) and olibes (olives)

Ds2 is 2.8 years. At the moment we have:

Bisbit- biscuit
at-choo- Thank you
Words starting with a 'c' start with a 't' sound instead.
Ds1 is 5 and struggled with his speech to begin with, bread for some unknown reason was 'wower'.

He still say 'radia-waiter' for radiator and there are a few others that he says but can't think of them right now.

Well I pronounce sphere as 'sfear' one syllable. DS pronounces it as two syllables almost sounding like he's saying a girl's name. I guess he had trouble saying it and the teacher emphasised the pronunciation for him and that has stuck

DD2 is 2y4m and has just reverted to sticking Fs at the start of most words, so we have;
fwumpets (crumpets)
fwanny and fwumpa
fwanbeddy juice (cranberry)

Yes you are quite right - I mean they pronounce the first syllable as 2 syllable

Now he can cope with 'trianular prism' absolutely fine. In fact he was giving me quite a lecture about the properties of 3-dimensional shapes! The first bit of maths hw that he was enthusiastic about.

My lovely dsd

"papent" walKway at side of road
"widdy" film
"tangawees" small orange fruits

and she is now 18 and still says "nemember" !!

Oh and carefee for careful, hopefee for hopeful etc (not now but as a wee one )

My colleague says redeemial instead of remedial and simular instead of similar. I dont correct him because I find it cute. Perhaps his mother did too and thats why he is still making the error at age 53!

we now have 'booboos' for blueberries. DS started it, and DD now calls them that, so we all do.

beddus is breakfast to everyone in our house.

and hippos are hippomopotamouses

giraffes were 'necks' for a long time. but not any more

we also have huge as fuge
and my DD has a fordhead .. i say it myself now. I hope she says it forever! Must start writing these things down!

My ds calls the sitting room 'city room' it sounds a bit like a posh hotel room, so I haven't corrected him. :o

Ooh about forehead! DD used to call it a two-head. Don't quite know why - maybe because hers was smaller than ours

We used to live in a terraced house where the sitting room was definitely also the 'front' room. My parents house was detached in a big garden so the DC never really knew which way was the front and they called it the sitting room - confused the DC so they often ended up calling it the fronting room!