Have you adopted words created by your DC when they were learning to talk?

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I now say 'scaf-building' instead of scaffolding, courtesy of DS1, because it just made sense.

Do you have any words like these?

And does it get you some weird looks?

Prainers for trainers

Daddy's ban instead of van

Pos instead of because

I have started writing down DD's toddlerisms, one day they will be gone and they are so cute. Favourites are:

• Dirty chickens - pigeons
• Tobies - strawberries
• Rorridge - porridge
• Loon - loo

DS went through a stage of calling DH "Daddus" a few weeks ago. Even though he's now moved on to the more traditional "Daddy," Dadus has stuck with us!

We had from DD:
Bibenders= Eastenders
Moke= remote control
nibbles= nipples
bummy= dummy
hedge-a-hog= hedgehog
nemonade= lemonade

DS-
Aggy- blanket (the very special blanky blanket)
but my ultimate favourite is his word for spider which is a very Scottish (think Taggart) "murder"... God only knows where he got that from, we are from the south east!

PS now I have outed myself on here.

I don't think I refer to my nipples specifically enough for DS to have a name for them.

When it's raining we take an "underbrella", even now that dd's almost 14

"I can do it my by my self" - DD1 has always been independant! Now a definite family saying
CDDDD - DVD
Brian - DD2 named any random man she didn't know the name of Brian - ie waving to postman/ supermarket delivery man "Bye Bye Brian" - we all do it now
Cyrils - Squirrels - dd2 was confused by Cyril the squirrel in Maisy mouse
Karen - Camera
Chikitch - Kitchen (my favourite - dd2 is 2.3 & starting to drop this - I'm encouraging her not to )

Forgot:

Snirkle (circle) and snigal (signal) (was gutted when those two disappeared from ds1's vocab!). We still occasionally get 'berember' instead of remember and 'sumbarine'.

Blackcurrant was always buggerant, and spaghetti 'piss-getty'! Kinda relieved those ones have gone but suspect ds2 might be encouraged in a similar fashion

Neither boy had a daddy when small - they both had "Didda" (ds2 still does, it is Just Not Cool when we mention it to ds1 though!).

Not that I swear much (honest guv), but one of ds1's first words was "Bol-locks" as I dropped something out of the cupboard . When ds2 was around 15 months he dropped a loaded spoon over the side of his high chair tray, and said "Oh shi.." Tbf though, he spent the ensuing month/6 weeks saying pretty much just that, pretty much all of the time, so hopefully it was just noise!

Love it!

Ventapillar = temperature
Cud = cross between cuddle and hug
Breakbits = breakfast
"I think we should go to the park recently" = I think we should go to the park really
"I can do it by my own" = I can do it myself
"Crispspsps" = crisps

Similar, but most embarassing conversation ever in the world went like this (in a changing room at the baths):
DD1: Mummy, those are your boogies.
Me: Yes they are
DD1: Are you going to put your knickers on?
Me: I am
DD1: Are you going to wear the sticky thing in your knickers that's a bit like a nappy for grown-ups

I used to say "biccit" for biscuits and "miffits" for with us. Thirty-two years later and my parents still say them!

spaghetti is pesgetti. Coldy instead of cold. I say coldy all the time now.

his dummy is his ingaya

you dont take a bath you do badabada

a fart is a pomposino

Tibbytubbies instead of tellytubbies, so sweet...

Any large bird (chicken, cockerel, turkey, pheasant, quail etc) is a hen (apart from ducks and geese)

I'm sure there are loads more but I just can't remember them! Should have written them down at the time :(

These are lovely! We have a dog and two kittoos in this house - from when youngest dd was learning to write - it just stuck and rather suits them.

Also I go and play badlington every week!

Yes! We all say "peeny" instead of "penis" and now all the baby cousins say peeny too.

We have 'bidders' in our house- slippers.
DD1 doesn't find it quite so funny now she's eleven.
"DD can you bring my bidders downstairs please"

We have budah budah for butterfly (weirdly she also used that word for flower!)

nanut for elephant

daddoo for thankyou/love you

dit nain for sit down

'Sunscream' for sunscreen/sun cream. DD3 hated it and pitched a fit every time I tried to apply some, then went on to call it, appropriately, sunscream.

love this thread!

DD (5 yrs) doesn't have headaches or tummyaches, she has head-eggs and tummy-eggs.
Vegetables are vegbuttles.
Instead of exhausted she is exasperated (but has to be said with big overdramatic sigh!)
The remote control is a fennynung (DH is German, and German for remote is fernbedienung)

DD says 'oppatus' instead of octopus :)

Can't remember which one of them referred to the cat rubbing herself against us as 'furring'.

DH now calls milk 'moots' and biscuits 'pippits'. I maintain that DS is teaching him to talk.

My goddaughter used to say 'washy pocket' for watering can. I love it.

pooter - computer
envalad - envelope
crips - crisps
servatray - conservatory
Ridicilis - ridiculous

We still have scrumpled eggs

We use the 'proper' word for blackcurrant though. When he was first talking, DS called it 'c*nt'

We call my MIL "knit knit" as when DS1 was young he had an obsession with a tape with the "wheels on the bus" song,and on the tape there was a verse "the grannys on the bus go knit knit knit".
Well, when MIL came to visit one time, she arrived in the room and he pointed at her and said "knit knit" and carried on calling her this.l

11 years later and we still all call her knit knit. You can imagine my friend's faces when i drop into conversation, "oh, knit knit's coming round in a bit"

In our house...
cornflakes are flapes
Bran flakes are special flapes
The milk gets heated in the michael-o-wave
Baffies (slippers) are batteries
Wellies are waggies
When he sneezes, Ds says 'exbless you' which we think is a combo of excuse me/bless you

DH is keen to correct their mispronunciations, but i never do! They are too cute.