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MawBroon Sat 23-Feb-19 11:16:06

Do you ever get caught out using “baby talk ”?
This is one of DGS Flynn’s favourites especially on his Babyccino.
Earned me a raised eyebrow however this morning at the coffee stall at Bedford station until I explained!

travelsafar Sun 17-Mar-19 08:50:38

'Chocs-a Boxlets!!! my mum use to take great delight in reminding me of when i said this to her as a small child whilst presenting her one Mother's Day morning with her favourite black magic chocolates. In my excitement to give them i got all my words muddled up!!!!smile

Lisalou Sun 17-Mar-19 07:54:22

Some of those are fabulous - particularly taken with the bottamus, might adopt that one (goes well with our heffalump, which we use to this day, all being Winnie the Pooh fans)
We have a few, the grandson of a friend used to ask for scrumply ax - (scrambled eggs)
My youngest used to say gagastic (disgusting)
and my son, a great lover of speed for the sake of speed as a child, used to love it if his father would speed up in the car or on the motorbike - "Give it some willy, daddy" (welly?) would make us all laugh

Miep1 Thu 14-Mar-19 11:35:49

Porshuninging for Yorkshire pudding

henetha Thu 14-Mar-19 11:29:21

"I got my murds wuddled"... (I got my words muddled)
is still used regularly after my son said it when he was little.
And pins-and-needles are always "fizzy legs" (or arms or whatever)

Sarahmob Thu 14-Mar-19 08:38:48

Chimley for chimney
And par cark for car park are ones that I still use from when my DD was little.

Bathsheba Thu 14-Mar-19 08:26:52

From my GD:
Daddle hick (travel sick)
I wuf oo (I love you)
Dirt (dessert)

My DD used to say:
Pitters and gitters (slippers and knickers)
Owbri (eyebrow)
Bald (boiled) egg
Punched up (poached) egg

One memorable thing she said one day was "I've got all fuwup (full up) stones in my pocket". To this day we still use that particular sentence construction grin

gillybob Thu 14-Mar-19 07:59:03

When my middle DGD was small she used to eat great big chunks of peeled cucumber as a treat.

Her way of asking for it was always “Mar-mar, me like coo-cumber yeah yeah yeah yeah” said in a kind of gruff “Muttley the dog voice” . We all still say it exactly like that.

Nanabanana1 Thu 14-Mar-19 07:45:17

Darbers- spiders
Barbertube - Baberque

Both of which are still used in the family even though grandchildren are in their teens

mcem Thu 14-Mar-19 07:17:58

Written, not spoken but stuck with us.
Very young DS wrote a story in which she went off to bed with her hootenwotterdottle!

NanaWilson Thu 14-Mar-19 04:45:30

Cute number-cucumber
Blanklet- blanket

Coolgran65 Thu 14-Mar-19 04:36:13

We still call a ladder...the steppy up thing.

absent Thu 14-Mar-19 03:43:31

I still sometimes talk about hopgrassers after an over-excited three-year-old was playing animal dominoes.

BBbevan Thu 14-Mar-19 02:20:27

Flingoes ( those pink birds)
Lickwickspindle ( milkshake powder )
Makinus ( Maximus)

GrandmainOz Wed 13-Mar-19 22:36:36

My son used to love Lion King. One character is a warthog. Son couldn't grasp this and called it a "huntpig".
I thought this was actually very clever!

lemongrove Mon 25-Feb-19 22:18:28

MacCavity2 terry for telly.....that explains a lot!
Londoners always used to call anyone called Terry, ‘Tel’.

Maw did you really ask for spinkles??

M0nica Mon 25-Feb-19 20:54:40

We still eat 'scetti' bolognaise.

Carolina55 Mon 25-Feb-19 18:37:30

My daughter used to say fwffy day for windy day and my granddaughter said sweppy for sweaty so DH and I still use those words with a smile!

Knickerbockerglory Mon 25-Feb-19 18:06:21

My Mom said to me “look, there’s a GeeGee (horse)” the other day...I’m nearly 60!

kittylester Sun 24-Feb-19 07:14:48

Cimena - difficult to say but then impossible to forget.

kittylester Sun 24-Feb-19 07:13:45

Skywipers - skyscrapers
Hedgehoppers - hitchhiker
Tank tu- thank you!

BlueSapphire Sun 24-Feb-19 07:11:08

Oh, and when I was teaching children often used to ask if they could borrow my stabiliser (stapler).

BlueSapphire Sun 24-Feb-19 07:08:05

Grumbled egg - scrambled egg.
Bejjies - strawberries.
Flingaloes - flamingoes.

callgirl1 Sat 23-Feb-19 22:44:25

Kitnernan for kitchen
Gaddad for grandad, both from my granddaughter, she`s now 26 and doesn`t believe she said them.
My daughter, who`s now 55, used to say kertercar for motor car, whereas he little boyfriend was very posh, he said mewtor tar.

Kittye Sat 23-Feb-19 16:04:04

Bapples, Frapes , Frandad. Hopistal. Parcark.
Skoogy (sticky) Scoggle ( snuggle)

lovebeigecardigans1955 Sat 23-Feb-19 15:57:49

Dear old mum went to the corner shop many years ago and asked for a 'golly-golly' when she meant to say dummy. Kid brother used to make a sound like 'golly-golly' when said item was in his mouth!
She laughed about it but I don't think she ever really lived it down.