Cute Mispronunciations and New Words

[waitakere]

What are some words your kids cutely mispronounce?
Or maybe they've given something an entirely new name?

DS calls raisins 'dots' which I've fully adopted.. And for a while 'thank you' was just 'coo' - which actually saves a lot of time.

I'd love to hear some more!

Bagina.

Daughter number two is four and has a bit of a scatological obsession at the moment. If she's not talking about poo, she's talking about 'baginas'. It's a phase, it'll pass quicker if I ignore it. The other day I tried on a pair of trousers and got "oooh, your bagina looks good in those". Sometimes it's hard to keep a straight face.

Youngest has a hard time with S at the start of words. So we eat nacks, and Halloween is mookey. I do not help matters by fully embracing these 😄

We were discussing how babies come out, and my youngest misheard. Cervixes are now 'Worm holes'.

Brambles have always been grambles. Just works better I think! We still all call them that 10 years later 😂

Soil sauce. We still call soy sauce this.

Chinese food: acrobatic duck.
Me and DD still call it this now over 25 years later.

My 21 month old son struggles with l so when he says please sounds like piss 🤣

Bedtime tables. It was so logical!

These are sweetly heartwarming 😊

Ds is teenaged now so I'm afraid I have forgotten most of his cute mispronunciations, but I do remember the first time he referred to something that wasn't literally happening or directly in front of him at the time.

I often bounced him on my knee and sang "This is the way the lady rides... trot trot trot. This is the way the gentleman rides... gallop gallop gallop. This is the way the huntsman rides... jump jump jump." He loved it.

One day he was sitting still on my lap and he looked at me and said "Tot... Gap... Tot... Gap". I understood what he wanted and we were both so very pleased with ourselves for communicating with eachother!

The best one from my own childhood was Mole on the Hill instead of Toad in the Hole!

Moustachio ice cream, for pistachio. It will forever be moustachio flavour to me!

DH is Peter. He likes choux pastry balls filled with cream and topped with chocolate sauce a lot.
In our house they are "ForPeterRolls"

My three year old watches his older brother's monster cartoons and has plenty to say about omzbies and grampires.

My eldest started calling her bedside light the 'story light' when she was 2.5 or 3. I'm doing my best to make sure it sticks.

She is also responsible for 'square cereal' (Shreddies) and 'pink biscuits' (sesame and poppyseed crackers, the Tesco wrapping is pink).

Glubs for gloves

Goggy for doggy

My DD and her friends call hamsters “bubagas”. I really don’t know why. She’s 14

Kawate he has no speech impediment I think he just misheard it and it's too cute to correct

My 9 yo says ‘thank you most kindly’ and ‘you’re most welcome’. We thought he was finished with it and I nearly cried but he’s back saying that. It’s so lovely!

Merlamaid for mermaid (confused with marmalade).

Saying "mine" instead of "my" eg "mummy hold mine hand"

We have glubs too. DD is 25 and we still say it.

And statubes instead of statues.

When I was little we had 'moving cream' which was tinned evaporated milk pours over jelly.

Now grown-up DS2 was the best for this, he talked early and had his own words for things. Amongst the ones I remember:

Upbears = upstairs (this was my favourite)
Downbears = (you've guessed it) downstairs
Round'n'round = washing machine
Beep = microwave

And DS3's one that we still use now: mank = milk

Marks Expensive = M&S

Bah Humber! (We don't know where that came from as it's not a phrase we used)

I love the way very small children apply grammatical rules they’ve unconsciously absorbed - and apply them incorrectly.

E.g. a very little Dsis to DM, re toys left in the garden, ‘We've brunged them all in, Mummy!’

She wasn’t so little, maybe 10, but I was quietly chuffed with a dd who was telling me about tests she’d just done at school. ‘English was OK, Mum, but I did really craply at maths.’ 😂

DD just liked to “correct” words so they sounded more logical to her. So the iPad was a “high pad”, a warthog was a “water hog” etc.

On the other hand, my younger DSis had many cute words and my friend and I still use a few of them today. Pandas were “pan-pans”, snails were “snay-wools” (and stripy brown and yellow snails were “chocolate blahna snay-wools”).

Breakfast was “grek-grek”, dinner was “dinder”, an earthquake was an “earth-break” and a workshop was a “hammer-works”.