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to not correct my toddler's hilarious mispronunciations?

180 replies

Celledora · 04/03/2019 21:23

Will it scar him for life if I let him find out for himself that he it is, in fact, 'bread sticks' he loves, not "big d*cks'?!

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fruityb · 04/03/2019 22:25

Bingers instead of fingers
Ditdit for biscuit
Dooey is dummy

I love it

DoYouLikeHueyLewisandTheNews · 04/03/2019 22:25

More big cock = more big clock, as in "please play the hickory dickory dock" song again please.

Mother87 · 04/03/2019 22:26

ShaggyrugGrinGrin

SukiPutTheEarlGreyOn · 04/03/2019 22:27

If he heard someone say say anything naughty, my DS would exclaim ‘you said a square word!’ Also called motorbikes ‘miniknackers’ (I still miss that one).

mrssalvatore14 · 04/03/2019 22:28

My 3 year old can't pronounce an F in certain words and yesterday we saw a pirate slag 🙈😂

Mysterycat23 · 04/03/2019 22:29

Somehow manages to insert a Spanish sounding "rrrr" into "OH-range" (orange).

Lellow for yellow.

Lolly for lorry.

We also have variations on cococumber.

At least he hasn't yet learned the word "COCK-rel" which a friend somewhat unwisely taught her DC Confused

Mother87 · 04/03/2019 22:30

Our DGC's love eating veggables and seeing films at the simmynaaGrin

Charles11 · 04/03/2019 22:30

My dd used to ask for dodanuts instead of doughnuts. I never corrected her as it was so cute.

Zebedee88 · 04/03/2019 22:31

We use to have 'black c##t' instead of blackcurrant

galaxy101 · 04/03/2019 22:33

My two and a half year old likes to say fuck instead of foot.

Look mummy, look at my fuck!! Grin

Mullberry7373 · 04/03/2019 22:33

My niece once shouted across a crowded play centre to me ‘Don’t forget my blackunt auntie’
We all called it Ribena after that...

Charles11 · 04/03/2019 22:34

Though be careful as when I was a student, a friend used to say sastumas instead of satsumas. I used to laugh and think they were trying to be cute.
I got suspicious one day and said ‘you do know they’re called satsumas...?’ He had no idea as he’d always called them that and never been corrected.
Let that be a lesson to you all...

AlphaJura · 04/03/2019 22:39

My dd used to say 'glubs' for gloves and thought Travis Perkins was called Travis Firkins (we live next to one)

My step daughter used to say 'cockle-shut' instead of shuttlecock

Not a toddler but my df used to always call hiccups 'cuppix' right up until he died at the age of 61.

AllTheProsecco · 04/03/2019 22:39

DD hasn't quite mastered the letter B yet and so shouts DIE DIE whenever we leave anywhere. Pretty hilarious until we're visiting 90 year old great nan on the hospital stroke ward Blush

DinoGreen · 04/03/2019 22:39

DS calls elbows "armbows" which I adore and never correct. "Mummy I banged my armbow waaaah" - it's just too cute.

didireallysaythat · 04/03/2019 22:45

A friend's daughter was going to be a mermerlade when she grew up.

DeadButDelicious · 04/03/2019 22:46

I think DD was trying to say 'Biggle(ton)' the other day but it came out as a very loud BUGGER! Which I tried not to laugh at. Especially when she was stamping round the living room shouting bugger at the top of her lungs. I may not have managed it.

She can't say fox, which comes out as fuck. Nor can she quite manage sheep which comes out as shit. Always fun. Grin

DisneyMillie · 04/03/2019 22:47

My 2 year old isn’t always great with c’s. embarrassing when on seeing a hat with a cat on in monsoon she starts loudly declaring she wants the titty hat over and over.

frenchonion · 04/03/2019 22:51

I love my youngest DS 'nuse' instead of 'use'. It's too cute!

Warpdrive · 04/03/2019 22:55

My niece used to say umbwewwa and we would engineer conversations around the weather just to hear it. Too cute.

SoupDragon · 04/03/2019 23:01

I had my favourite phrases printed onto mugs :) They make me very happy indeed!

GetOffTheTableMabel · 04/03/2019 23:01

DD2 had a speech delay and was committed to having bare feet whenever she was indoors. I had to explain to preschool that she was saying “socks off” not “fuck off” because if she couldn’t pull her own socks off easily she would shout “fuck off” with increasing urgency while waving her feet in the air.

Thesearmsofmine · 04/03/2019 23:08

My eldest used to call his toy castle an arsehole Grin

My youngest (2) has a book with a rabbit that has a fluffy tail and he calls it a cloud, I can’t correct him because it is so cute 😍

Rinoachicken · 04/03/2019 23:14

DS2 age 5 practising his school nativity songs last Christmas - highlight was the ‘fucky camels’ (funky camels!)

Orangehandtowel · 04/03/2019 23:18

We live near a castle and that was asshole

We had the stick is dick one too

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