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

Scream Extractor?

My first though was willy wonka?

This thread brings back memories of when my son used to say dick insteasd of stick, would pick up sticks in the park shouting little dick ,big dick, dick man etc 😆

Mine have always picked it up from us, embarrassingly.

DD's first full sentence was telling the cat to fuck off. In front of my scandalised mum. And I'll never forget her crystal clear, carrying voice saying "that man is a wanker, mummy!" To a white van man with his windows down.

You get careless when your kids have speech delay 🤣

Ah I missed you post about finding out what it was! Oh and @MiniBakers are you a troll as every thread you are on, there seems to be deleted comments 🤔

So funny!

Glad you worked it out OP!

My DS has always been very into his dinosaurs and knew the names of some obscure ones, although couldn't always say them properly, when he was quite little. When he was around two or three years old, he used to yell 'CUNTasaurus!!!!' with huge emphasis on the first syllable. Desperately wanted me to draw a cuntasaurus for him but I had no idea what dinosaur he meant.

Carnotaurus.

My son (year 1) told me to 'shut the fuck up'. I've no idea where he heard it. I am pretty sure I've not said that it in his presence! There seems to a a warring trend at school though. Always coming home telling me who said what.

I drew no attention to it and he's never said it again.

I've seen a cute video of a little girl in a Halloween witch costume.

Someone asks 'Are you a good witch or a bad witch?'

Her: 'I'M A BAD BITCH!'

He may just be getting something wrong... 😂

My DS at that age was running around saying 'dad likes shite' which was meant to be pronounced dad likes sprite 😂😂

It's definitely this! ☝️

I work in a call centre, but I'm from Yorkshire.

I got pulled into a meeting because someone had complained that I'd swore at them and it was really vulgar.

I was absolutely shocked, I've never sworn at a customer. I consider myself to be really professional on the phone.

Cue listening to the call with 2 line managers and someone from quality control, all from different regions of the country, and it got to bit.

The customer said "oh, that won't work then. So I can't do that then, can I?"

And I said "sorry, no, ya cunt".

It didn't register at first so they played it back again, and I went white as a sheet and had to explain I wasn't calling him a cunt, I was saying, you couldn't.

I'm just from a coal mining town in Yorkshire and sometimes we say cunt, wunt, dunt. It's something completely out of my control, it would take so much energy to monitor how I say these words, and surely I'm not the only one that says this.

I got let off without a warning but not before being made to sweat and cry.

My middle kept saying ‘tits’ took me a while to realise he was saying ‘what’s this’

my eldest kept saying ‘lift fuck’ - again, took me a while to realise he was saying fork lift truck ☠️🤣

Haha we also had fack fack 🤣

I overheard a toddler once shouting repeatedly ‘Dickhead, dickhead, dickhead’
His Grandma who was with him was replying ‘oh yes Nicky, Nicky, we’re going to see Nicky aren’t we!’
She rolled her eyes at me and we laughed.

My eldest also couldn’t say the letter L so clocks were “cocks” and my husband’s watch was “daddy’s cock”!

My son used to say “one car” which was suspiciously like wanker lol. I used to follow up with “two car” just so people did t think the worst!

Great thread
When my youngest son was around 3, he said, very loudly "look mummy it's the bugger" he meant vicar!
We also had Monster Fucks for Monster Trucks.

my ds(14)went into nursery repeatedly chanting "theres 2 theres 4 ,6 theres eight shunting fucks and hauling trait...." ....

Ahhhh we had a Thomas mishap too… my Godson… now late teens… theres2, there’s 4, there’s 6, there’s 8, shiny fucks and holy Kate…. Kate is his mother… and the fuck cunttroller…

My son used to, without fail, when passing other mums on the way out of nursery, shout at the top of his lungs: Look at the bitch!

Bridge. It was the railway bridge across the road.
🤦🏻‍♀️

Jarring the first time. Then it was just hilarious. 🙈🤣

Always a good time to share this: https://www.tiktok.com/@ivyandsophiesmith/video/6964631569495608577?lang=en

This reminds me of my DC saying fuck as it rhymed with duck (they thought it was a made up word) in nursery 😱 and also asking for patella sandwiches (Nutella) quite regularly. It used to confuse quite a lot of people.

Sully monster perhaps?

It’s just sound exploration. My son used to call his dad ‘daddy wanky’ when he was very little / learning to talk. It was hilarious, only lasted about a month but I really miss it. I think it’s just a satisfying word to say

Older children. Heard this from another teacher, class learning verbs finishing in ..ing. Child wrote my mum went out dogging, instead of ..my mum took the dog for a walk.