Explain that....

Carmickla? DGDs word for golden syrup !!!

Wish there was a 'like' button, some of these are priceless, but the thread has moved on too far to comment on them all.

One of my pupils asked her mother if she believed in 'green carnations' - we were studying Ancient Egypt at the time

My grandson told me they had an "insect" day on Friday so no school !

Not a child, but my sister-in-law who isn't English. After my brother had been suffering with a migraine, she asked 'Is your-graine better now?' Well if it's my-graine it must be your-graine. Logical!

Many years ago, a neighbour of mine had her grandchildren come to stay for an extended period - I believe they were about two and four. Thing is, the children lived in the UK and my neighbour is in Spain - the children had some Spanish but being young, were not always easy to understand in Spanish and her english was non-existent at the time. She had me on fast dial to work out what they wanted on occasion. Queue an evening phone call from a very frustrated granny asking me what her grandson wanted for supper - he was by this stage crying and I had to go round to find out what he wanted. He wanted scrumply axe - and granny couldn't for the life of her find out what it was. Not only did i have to translate, I had to give her the recipe, as scrambled eggs is not a dish eaten in Spain!

My son when four, and sharing DH's passion for motorbikes and all the language this entails, once shouted out while in the car, and a large bike passed us "Come on, give it some willy!!!"

Hossnas = Sultanas ??

DD was frightened silly by the vacuum cleaner when she was tiny and would toddle off shouting the warning "vaculeener - vaculeener!"

DS was very keen on "pickle dunyuns" and also liked "scramble deggs"

My DD did ' Jim elastics' when she was a child.

My little GD calls caterpillars 'patterdiddlers', and also asks me to be careful when I pick her up in case I hurt her under the 'arm pins'!
When her mummy was small, she got very excited because she'd been to London to visit 'Madame Two-Swords'!

If we get tired out walking, we always say " my eggs lake" because that's what our Ds used to say when he was five as he would get pain behind the knees with his very flat feet.
Our five year old DGD likes to say a grace that she has learned at school but her version goes " God our Father, who gives us sword" . She is adamant that is right but I have checked with the teache, it should be " who gives us all."

A little girl in the first class I ever taught identified a donkey conker tree in the playground. Much better than horse chestnut.

Little sister used to say cosbe instead of because, because DM would sing Follow the Yellow Brick Road to keep us walking any distance. Think about it... Also a child in DS2's class said vegetablearian. It did make me laugh.

My eldest DS is 40 next year and we still refer to windscreen wipers as 'windscreamers' thanks to him!

When DD1 was about three we had a problem with pea-bugs (woodlice) getting into our hall. She didn't like them, so I picked them up and put them in the garden, telling her they were only little bugs. One morning, I asked a (very prim and proper) neighbour in for coffee. While we were chatting, DD1 ran in shouting "Mummy, there's one of those little buggers in the hall again!" That took some explaining!

I still remember being told how to pronounce vehicles. There was a sign at the entrance to our local park which I read when I was seven or eight as "No veehickles". I had no idea what it meant. My dad, dead straight-faced, explained.

Well, he would: when he was a teenager cycling around Leeds he read the road name Gipton Approach as Gipton Appricotch. Deliberate mispronouncing was part of his charm. I especially loved his way of saying be careful: Carry-fyooly. Actually, I think he may have been dyslexic when nobody had heard of it so weird pronunciations were his way of remembering how to spell things.

He always got my mum to check his spelling on any important documents before they went out.

These little snippets are really cheering me up. I may have tol this story before but here goes. We told my daughter we were going to visit her aunt who had recently moved. we were travelling by train she excited told all and sundry " I'm going to see my aunty in her castle" We gently enquired why she thought aunty lived in a castle. Her reply ."you said auntie had moved to a new castle" she and the rest of the passengers were very disappointed to be told "no auntiy had moved to Newcastle!"

My DS used an 'underbrella' when it rained, said 'I do apoggolise' if he was sorry, and made up stories using his 'imaginisation'!
Wobblybits my guess is 'asparagus'!

This from my son (and I still feel bad about it) "is yesterdays tomorrow today?"

My Granddaughter "ooo look at that swan with its magnets" (sygnets).

Err ??? what is a par A gus ?

My brother was reading a recipe book and asked what as par A gus was. And to this day all the family call it that. And when on a train he was naming all the stations as we passed through, got them all right apart from Percy Main, which became Perky Main.

My brother-in-law's name was Harvey, and DS1 told me they were celebrating Uncle Harvey's festival at nursery...

Practising with his class for a service in church, grandson told me they were going to be having a Harvest Vegetable

as a child I could not say Car Park - it was always a "Par Cark"

I love the mis-pronunciations by children & the fact that they become family words

DS1 called money 'ait' which I couldn't understand until the corner shop owner said, 'that's right' as I handed him the money. A little voice echoed,'that's ait'.