words that grandchildren mispronounce

Witzend

I really liked the Fuchsia Fairy in my Flower Fairies book - and thought it was pronounced Fucksia- until I was hastily corrected!

Dd2 when very tiny often used to ask for an ‘odgy-one’ (orange)

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The current very sweet one is skelington.

Others were hosibal. Busgetti. And for a very brief period, nose instead of snow.

Busgetti ?
Oh yes, a little boy we know used to say psgetti - in fact I'm sure he still does (and he's Dad himself now).

When our grandson was 2 he called a double decker bus 'a diggle boogie bus' ?

Eeebroops - eyebrows, said by my friends little boy.

Perkin - gherkin.

My daughter told me she wanted dibbits, and got really cross when I didn't know what she meant.

Egg and soldiers, so you could dibbit in your egg.

One of the pubs round our way (a lot are Sherwood Forest themed as it's Nottingham) is the Friar Tuck. It's been called the Try a F*

I read in about a woman whose job was in reception, answering the phone and saying "Country Craftwork, may I help you", numerous times a day.

Needless to say, the inevitable happened.

Eldest GD, as a toddler, would get excited when she saw a full moon and shout to her daddy " bring skeletope ". Her dad is an astronomer and always had a telescope to hand.

MissAdventure

DD2 radioator and sidebide cabinet for radiator and bedside cabinet.
DGS2 Fagmifying glass for Magnifying glass.
DGD3 Bemosh and yogood for brioche and yoghurt.
All still used by family

I could fancy a dibbit now!

Years ago when he was only four, our Boy Wonder asked his lovely childminder if she had nipples. Shocked, she said she didn’t think that was an appropriate question to ask her. Seeing his confusion and the fact he looked a bit upset, she probed a little further. Turned out he wondered if, when she smiled, whether she had dimples.

My two favourites are
1. That was my flavourite dinner (a good x for food!)
2. Look Granny I have a Boots vulture! ( we still say vulture for voucher and I think of the view of half a dozen vultures perched on the cash machine at boots!)

Park a pew (Barbeque), elehaps (elephant) and my brother called me "Baddie" when he heard people call me "Maggie". Wonder if he was trying to tell them something !

We had a wonderful friend who told us the story of how her 2 year old daughter was peeling an orange and her Nana asked if she could help. The little girl said 'yes, piss off' - presumably intended 'pith off'.

When my brother was little, he couldn't pronounce "tr" so train became "frain" and track was "frack". Imagine my mum's look of horror as my brother shouted across the road one day, at the top of his voice, to "Benji", a local builder - "Oi! Benji! - ave you seen my frucknfractor" (his favourite toy! ... of course!)

My late husband is still Grallag to his 20 and 22 year old grandkids.
Wind-wipe-screamers. Still my favourite MP from my oldest son. He also loved articulated lorries, and seeing one, just the cab without its trailer, it was "an ar, without its tic"
A screwdriver, for some strange reason, was a Foomanin, and a window-ledge was a Linda-wedge.

ixion

Andulblance here.

And, for pylons, ^blom bloms^

We have andabulance too!!

Mine at about 7 said "Dektive" for detective, and "Pictureskew" for picturesque. And "Slove" a crime.

We once lived in “Lower South Road”, it was mispronounced as “ Sour Loaf Road “ ? We’ve had “cupunkers”, “bimatoes” and then GD no:1 used to watch Dora the Explorer on tv …..and told me that Swiper the fox, lived down a “fuxhole “, which we still tease her about !

My daughter would say
"hippo mer botamus" ...still makes us laugh.

Boobies for blueberries my 3yr old gd

Thought of another one …. Pushing GD thro town in a pram, she kept saying Nanny I can smell “Ducky”, can I have some. So I rang her mum to ask what it meant and is was “Kentucky” (fried chicken ) ?

Reading the MP names reminds me that, when I was small, and a precocious reader, I came across the name Mr. McConachie. In my head I read it as Mr. Mackan-achee, and I still see it that way today.

My DD had a friend named Ellen Melon at school, who turned out to be Helen Melling.

Yellow will always be mallow in our house. Grandson age 2. I was Gaga. Thought he might have had a premonition!