Literal-minded kids names for things -

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3yo DS and I were baking muffins on Sunday, he called flour 'pastry powder'

I don't imagine that one'll stick once he knows the real word, but DH calls quiche 'egg cake', and friends of ours all call raspberry jam 'pink jam' since the kids named it years ago.

Any more?

My daughter used to call steak 'dead cow' after asking what it was made of when she was about 2. Got a few looks in the supermarket for that one.

probably not exactly on point but when mine were small we used to go to the library and also to a book shop in our town that had a small cafe - we'd buy them a cookie and milk there usually. To this day they call the book shop the Cookie Library.

Oh yes I love this, when they dont know a word, but the thing they use instead makes wonderful, perfect sense.

Mine called the cat carriers "cat garages" today.

Love these! Especially 'cat garages'.

We call cotton buds ear cleaners.

"Smoking sticks" for cigarettes.

"Jumpolines"!

We have Flat Eggs instead of fried here.

Years ago my daughters named Angel Delight "noisy pudding".

Tongs are food tweezers. Also the tube station is called Stockingwell

Mine is a taking things literally.

"Ok, pre school first, then I'll drop Auntie off at the station"

Shocked voice from back of car "Don't Drop Auntie, I like Auntie!"

DD (4) was looking at a book which had a picture of a lost property office in it and she was naming all the things people leave on buses which were shown in the picture.

'Hats, gloves, a radio, a walker-helper'...

'Hang on, a what?'

'A walker-helper'

A few days later we had 'birdy' for shuttlecock. I told her it was called a shuttlecock. I got a Paddington-stare and was advised that she would like to call it a birdy.

DS (2.3yo) presented me with a feather he found in the garden and solemnly said, 'Bird hair.' I was also sorry when he stopped calling spider webs 'spider houses'.

My sister used to call a Roast Dinner a "Dark Dinner" - maybe due to the lashings if gravy.

DD has names for the different play parks around - the Tunnel Park, the Telescope Park, the Ship Park etc all based on the various playsets.

We have 'over-tomorrow' for the day after tomorrow - it's a literal translation from the German which my DCs learnt before they learnt the English for it - and it's stuck!

Air ambulance= helidoctor

Helidoctor is genius! and is what they should be called!

The day after tomorrow is over morrow here, but we didn't invent it - it just fell out of common usage!

The girls like their hair to be put up in 'bunchytails'

'Yesteryear' - last year, 'yesternight' - last night

ThinkIveBeenHacked I quite agree. Dd was not quite 2 when she coined that one.

Trousers have 'leg sleeves' in our house.

Penguins were once snowy ducks. Sadly no longer.

ninjalep, your daughter has a blunt grasp of the food chain! my son said to me a while ago "isn't it funny how you have different types of chicken? the yellow fluffy type that lays eggs, the type of chicken that you eeeeeaat, me, I'm your chicken"

I love bird hair and helidoctors!

Dd2 calls the telephone 'the hello' and they both call 'having a proper wash in the sink' a 'finger bath', which saves time nicely!

Red sauce- tomato ketchup (ds1 would only eat the former, not the latter!)

i love yesternight! that is so logical!

DD accuses people of "noising" i.e. making a noise. It's very appropriate when directed at her sister - I always think she makes a noise first and anything else is her secondary activity.