Help me work out why my 3yo is saying 'silly wanker'

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My son is 3.5yo. He has just started randomly saying 'wanker' 'silly wanker' and what sometimes sounds like 'you're a wanker'.

I am not naive enough to rule out him having perhaps heard this language and copying it but it seems like he's actually trying to say something else as his speech isn't the clearest for age 3.5

I'm 100% confident he's not heard it at home as we genuinely just don't use that word but he does go to nursery and is around other kids at parks etc.

At first it sounded like he was saying 'one car' and it still does sound like one car more than wanker but when I tried to ask him if he was saying one car he said no.

I asked him a few times who says that as he's usually quite good at telling tales about kids who hit or are naughty at nursery but he just said 'I say it' , until today he said 'Randall says it' . He's just got into watching monsters inc and monsters university and I know lots of films try to do silly play on words to appeal to adult audiences which usually goes over little kids heads, and so I'm considering if he's heard Randall saying something similar and am asking for help trying to hopefully work out what!

As I said, it may well be he's just heard the word somewhere, but it's bugging me thinking he's trying to say something else and I can't work out what!

Thanks in advance

Vagina shop!🤣

I said silly cow instead of my usual expletives once at an intersection, the kids have said it forever more

We had the fucking dog for weeks, which in fact was the fox and dog

🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant

🤣🤣🤣Love this!

I remember my son excitedly telling me about his friend's new puppy: "His name is Muttley, like in Big Bastardly and Muttley"

A sign of our toddlers having been staying with the grandparents was the sprinkling of "bugger" in their phrases. Trip up? "Oh bugger". Waiting at a red traffic light? "Bugger bugger bugger".
We laughed A LOT. (It wore off, more's the pity. They don't swear (in adults' presence) now as teenagers.)

It's a tough one. One of mine really struggled with his speech and we had all sorts to contend with. He also tried to make links between things, so Mike from monsters Inc was Michael and also a monster. So anyone we met called Michael he'd call a monster. This was usually shouted very loudly. He thankfully said swear words he learned at school (and from my driving I hate to say) wrong. Dish head was one.

Woohoo!

One of mine used to tell everyone about our doggies big dick. He meant STICK.

When DS was 2, he also loudly proclaimed “MONKEY! oo oo oo” to a poor random
bloke in the supermarket. And the more we told him the man was… well, a man, just like daddy, the more he shouted that no, he was a monkey. I wanted the ground to swallow me up.

We have this same issue but with Cocks.

‘Say hello to the Scream Extractor’ condensed into toddler-eese? Randall says that quite emphatically at one point

glad you figured it out! My son used to call his blankie a wanker 😂 that was a tough year of him shouting at me he wants a wank/wanker

haven't read your post but is it by any chance because he saw nigel farage on TV?

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We had the fucking troller too !
Everyone wanted to read Thomas books with him ..

lol I’m glad you figure it out op. I have an almost 3 year old and seagull went to go in our front door today. I went ‘ahh go away! Bloody seagull!’ Then my daughter was saying ‘bloody seagull.’ About 400 times for the next hour.

I do like trying to figure out what they’re saying when they come out with something!

So glad you worked it out! As the parent and stepparent of 3DC with various speech issues I get how annoying it is when you can't work out what they are saying, plus the additional when it sounds like a swear word!! Certain swears the kids probably have got from me but like you I know what words I use so ignore the perfect parent parade! Being unable to communicate properly is so frustrating for the DC let alone the adult so I'm happy you got it and took the time to get it as clearly you care enough to take the time even if you do spend 90% of your day calling people silly wankers 😜

Ah the rest of these are just hilarious! Thanks everyone for the input, I'm very pleased we got to the bottom of it now! He was pleased too!

Think it must be that.

Mystery solved ! My 2.5 year old has unfortunately picked up the phrase aw fuck sake mannn from my DH watching the football. We r just trying to totally ignore it and hope it just goes away !

Isn't he saying Sully Monster?

Took my then two year old to pride, waving his flag shouting “fag fag fag”.

Sometimes they word they aren’t pronouncing correctly isn’t as obvious, which makes it harder to correct. Pleased you managed to solve the mystery!

My kids used to say the cats pissing, clear as anything. I realised it was the cats hissing lol 😂

Oh I remember my DS went through a "one car" phase, aged 2.

It was tough.