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Baby words passing into everyday family parlance?

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ixion Mon 28-Dec-20 10:18:59

To kick off, in our family we have, routinely and without batting an eyelid? -

Andleblance/Ambulance (DB)
Amblublance/Ambulance (DD1)
Blomblons/Pylons (DB)
Klabibs/Traffic lights (DS3)

Surely, we are not alone??

Laughterlines Mon 28-Dec-20 16:48:10

Case suiter...suitcase

GagaJo Mon 28-Dec-20 16:43:36

Busgetti = spagetti
Hossibul = hospital
Gaga = granny (me)
Disor OR didador = dinosaur. There is a LOT of discussion about these things which GS is convinced still exist.
Mum mum = bum (GS has found bums hilarious from about 10 months onwards)

I love my GS's squeaky little voice. It is quite at odds with his size. He is as big as a 4 year old but isn't 3 yet.

Nortsat Mon 28-Dec-20 14:24:34

My name begins with N and my partner’s begins with S.
We were known by my nephew as Norts and Shorts and it has stuck for decades

grandMattie Mon 28-Dec-20 14:11:34

DGD2 “Marks and Spencer bridge” = (Clifton) suspension bridge...
Towel = dressing gown
Vultures = (gift) vouchers

Katek Mon 28-Dec-20 14:05:48

Finger knife (nail file)
Stuffing lorry (bin lorry - you stuff things in it!)
Puddy - tummy
For good as snake!
Tap taps - boiled eggs

timetogo2016 Mon 28-Dec-20 13:55:14

Allstation -alsatian.
Mingaling-mingling.

Llamedos13 Mon 28-Dec-20 13:49:41

Never see a Volkswagen without the word Bostwagen popping into my head.

Auntieflo Mon 28-Dec-20 13:46:40

Oh Gulligranny, we had buppy, when we were little, and I hadn't heard anyone else use it.

Stwarbellibellies... strawberries, DS1
Parcark... car park
Pollsdram... dolls pram

From my friend at work
No boubt adout it.... no doubt about it!

Jaxjacky Mon 28-Dec-20 13:38:08

My Dad was known as Pampa from first GC to last.

Grandma70s Mon 28-Dec-20 13:37:14

Not from my children, though there must have been some - but my aunt when a small child had a friend apparently called Jumping Nellie. She turned out to be Joan Pengelly. It still makes us laugh.

Purpledaffodil Mon 28-Dec-20 13:36:20

But I’ve got bendy legs- DS aged 3 tired on a long walk
Dick dick , picnic DGD
Many more of course! ?

gulligranny Mon 28-Dec-20 13:33:54

Buppy was bread-and-butter
Glubbys were gloves and usually worn when you had to have a Scraff too
I always thought that the song "Underneath The Arches" was "Underneath The Archers" (an everyday story of country folk ...)

ginny Mon 28-Dec-20 13:23:24

Little Yorkshire puddingsare always pork pies.
Pillocks.... pillows
Clouds....... dumplings
Bippies...... crisps
Carryann.....caravan
Pineal........apple

emmasnan Mon 28-Dec-20 13:23:06

Barstick - basket, wallop - wallet, holtiday - holiday, I can hear my trods - can hear footsteps, banilla - vanilla, cementser mixer - cement mixer. Probably dozens more that we still use with a smile.

Ladyleftfieldlover Mon 28-Dec-20 13:21:13

I think the only one we still use is ambulent for ambulance.

felice Mon 28-Dec-20 13:18:44

Helilala- Helicopter DS2
Lolly- Lorry DD and she married a Lolly driver !!!!!!

There must have been more but they are the ones still in common use in the family.

merlotgran Mon 28-Dec-20 13:17:34

Sodits = sausages
Bedclo = blanket (singular of bedclothes we presumed)
Dinky Noddid = drink of orange
We also had bisgetti for spaghetti
Ballinster = bannister
Ambliance = ambulance

JanaNana Mon 28-Dec-20 13:00:25

Eggie pots....Egg cups.
Doctor Doctor books.....Dot - to - Dot books.
Still tease our granddaughter about these she said many years ago.

Lucca Mon 28-Dec-20 12:43:44

Eyebrowns

Iam64 Mon 28-Dec-20 12:38:25

pellow - pillow

strangled eggs- go on, guess!

Witzend Mon 28-Dec-20 12:35:50

Odgy-one (orange) from a very little dd.

Not a word, but ‘stuffed to the highest heaven’ (full), same dd.

Not exactly baby-talk, but from my brother who was a voracious reader very early on, and consequently came across a lot of words he’d never heard pronounced.

So we still say Gribble-ayter (as in Rock of Gribble-ayter.)

GillT57 Mon 28-Dec-20 12:29:58

My son thought that fox was plural and so called singular ones a fok. Logical when you think about it!

Ro60 Mon 28-Dec-20 12:16:47

Arm-bows - elbows
Playing flour - plain flour - via nursery where the nn's would make up play-dough from flour.
DD2 singing in church at the top of her voice ' All things bright and beautiful all pizzas great & small ..... The purple hairy mountains, the river running by ....
DGD calls grand-dad Grandy which worked out well so we can distinguish between other Grandfathers.

Grannybags Mon 28-Dec-20 12:16:43

We still habba look

Radigator = radiator

Maggiemaybe Mon 28-Dec-20 12:14:21

Radiheater and televinge for radiator and television. Glubs for gloves, like others.

DGS4 loves Eureka, the National Children’s Museum. He thinks it’s called My-Reka, which leads to many passionate exchanges on the lines of “But it’s not Your-Reka or His-Reka, it’s My-Reka”.