To think my friend is being way to serious about this?

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Dd is 5 and can't get the word ' animal' right. She says aminal.
I find it cute and do correct her but gently remind her and she has a think about it and when she says it slowly she gets it right.
But like I said I find it cute and am guessing she will grow out of it.

Df was round earlier and dd mentioned something about animals but said it the wrong way and df told her she said it wrong but dd wasn't really listening as she was running about with the puppy.
Anyway df had a bit of a go at me about how can I let her talk like that kids will make fun of her , do I not care? You get the picture.
I told her to lighten up dd would be fine and changed the subject. But when she left she was still moody.

Aibu to think she's a kid she'll grow out of it?

I don't think anyone should be correcting her, she will get it soon no need to force it

This is perfectly normal and of course she will grow out of it.

My son when he was 5 pronounced "popcorn" as "cock porn." "Oh mummy! Can I have some cock porn? I love cock porn!"

It was awesome and hilarious and the first time he said "popcorn" correctly I was slightly disappointed.

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Most children have a range of words they turn around at this age - so long as they hear you saying it the 'proper' way they're not going to grow up unable to communicate, or get bullied for it. Your friend needs to lighten up!

pengwings

Was just about to say Pisgetti, but MuminScotland beat me to it. My sister always pronounced it thus

Both my DC always pronounced 'banana' as 'maneena' and 'swimming' as swooming' (almost three years' difference between them, so one didn't teach the other, IFYSWIM).

They are now both perfectly ably to pronounce those words correctly, your friend is being awkward and precious.

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I used to say 'puppa tea?' (the upward inflection was very important apparently). I can assure you I no-longer say this.

You wouldn't expect a five year old to be dexterous enough to paint a copy of Picasso's Guernica, would you? Well it's the same with their little mouths, they have to catch up too. Just keep gently reminding her and she'll be grand.

Pengwings!! I never liked BC before but I think I've fallen a bit in love with him now.
I still
Say Par Cark unless I try very hard not to, and DSD (8) says 'badosh' for 'moustache' and 'armpince' for 'armpits'. I don't see a problem with it at all.

My 9 yo said demin yesterday for denim, the shame of it!!! (We giggled for ages)

Most kids do this. I used to find certificate very difficult, used to come out 'cerfificate'. Also really couldn't come to terms with the fact island had a silent s so it was is-land for a long time . Your friend is strange.

I don't think there's a problem as you've said you gently correct her. Hence she will learn the correct way. I have a friend who also thinks it's cute that her little boy can't pronounce words correctly but doesn't correct him. He's now three and pretty much unintelligible (apart from to her and her husband). It's starting to become a real problem at nursery (and she is in denial).

One of mine said aminal. They corrected it on their own.
The SALT way of correcting is not to say anything about it being wrong, but model it back correctly. So you say "Yes, that's right, an animal".

The wrong thing to do is think it's cute and imitate them, or make a big fuss about them being wrong.

Reminds me when ds was small he had issues with the word 'pelican'., hue would say pecalan. Then he would in all seriousness say, "Mummy, I can't say pelican, I can only say pecalan'.

Glasses - galees
Helicopter - heticlopper
except - incept

etc etc.

It's so cute, and some of these words you'll remember even when they're adults. It's totally sweet and your friend is being seriously weird.

Hopspital, hipponopinos, biscetti, my son did all those and we still call milk moomp, just for fun, as he is now ten and can pronounce them all fine now. Funny how it's the same words for lots of us!

As an aside, this is really hard to type with autocorrect turned on!

My son used to say 'barbrube' for 'rhubarb' and - I loved this, he called Frank Sinatra (I was/am still his greatest fan) 'Fancy Nancy'.

Don't worry, OP - son grew up to be a hot-shot lawyer!

Friend is being ridiculous. DS2 says 'hor' instead of 'or'. snigger
I really need to correct him but it's so funny
'What would you like in your sandwich ds?'
'Ham hor cheese'
Snort.

My now 14 year old DS said 'aminal' when he was that age, and my 5 year old DD says it if she is in a rush to get something out. I always thought it was cute, too! We've also had 'sketti', 'burbers' and 'rats' instead of spaghetti, burgers or wraps for supper. The 'rats' raised some eyebrows. They grow out of it, and to date the other kids have never made fun of mine for mispronounced words... most of them do it, too.

Oh but it is sooo sweet. My 6 year old calls caterpillars, callapippers. I secretly hope he keeps doing it although it might be a bit odd when he is 35.

I was a tiny bit sad when DS started to say elephant instead of efalunt - a sign my little boy was growing up. We hadn't corrected him though, just tried to let him hear us saying it correctly.

I remember a relative trying to correct him for saying computier instead of computer -
DS: Look at mummy's computier
DRelative: Say computer
DS: Computier
DRelative: No, say computer
DS: Computier
... with the last bit repeated many times with an increasingly confused DS. I had to ask them to stop doing this. I can't remember when he did start to say computer but it certainly wasn't a result of them trying to drill it into him.

On the other hand I do correct new words DS has only just started using (at 5). I don't make a big deal of the pronunciation, just include it in a chat about what the word means, where he's heard it, etc. Sometimes it's simply that he's misheard a word, but in one case recently I realised he'd heard a word in a song where it had been sung with an extra syllable to fit the tune, so we talked about it normally being spoken in a different way. I wouldn't be bothered about a word a child has been using for ages though, as is likely in the OP's case.

My Ds did with Every single word with n and m.

Even better he did it in reverse as well.

So the animals arrived at the ternimals. The elephant was gimornous. We had friends and emenies etc etc. Lasted till he was about 7 and then gradually grew out of it.
God it was hard typing that, it kept correcting itself.

DS is also five and also says aminal.

I think it's cute as well. He can write it down and spells it properly.

He also says "flowel" (like flower but with an 'L') instead of flannel.

But he's saying lots of other words correctly that he used to get a little bit wrong. They grow out of it, you don't have to make a big deal out of it, your friend is taking it too seriously.

The one mistake I do try and correct is when he's playing pirates and becomes "shit-wreaked" on a desert island. That's one I don't think I can wait for him to grow out of

Grrrr AMINALS

Aaah Mabel - you've just reminded me. My little sister user to call caterpillars 'tattenpullers".

Shitwreaked [hahaha]

Lots of young children say "lellow" for yellow. It's sweet, I think

It's a really common to say "aminal".

Get her this book, OP. goo.gl/3rvnCy

My DS had a set of flash cards, U was an Umbrella, Z a Zebra. Somewhere along the line the 2 got confused and from that day on an Umbrella was an Umzebra. We still use this word now. He's 22