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words that grandchildren mispronounce

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HowVeryDareYou Mon 03-Oct-22 21:51:08

Isn't it endearing when grandchildren get words mixed up or mispronounce things? Our granddaughter (8, the other day) is bright, funny, clever, etc., but can't say "Chimpanzee". She calls it Chinzambee grin. We laughed (even though it was her birthday) but she didn't seem to mind.

Kalu Tue 04-Oct-22 16:57:21

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)

???

GagaJo Tue 04-Oct-22 17:04:07

The current very sweet one is skelington.

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

Callistemon21 Tue 04-Oct-22 17:12:11

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).

Curlywhirly Tue 04-Oct-22 18:11:37

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

MissAdventure Tue 04-Oct-22 18:48:21

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. smile

HowVeryDareYou Tue 04-Oct-22 21:54:40

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*

MissAdventure Wed 05-Oct-22 00:11:41

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. smile

harrigran Wed 05-Oct-22 09:21:05

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.

HowVeryDareYou Wed 05-Oct-22 10:52:48

MissAdventure grin

Nannyjaxx Wed 05-Oct-22 12:02:14

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

Witzend Wed 05-Oct-22 12:07:45

I could fancy a dibbit now!

Urmstongran Wed 05-Oct-22 16:29:59

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.

madeleine45 Wed 05-Oct-22 16:37:44

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!)

Fae1 Thu 06-Oct-22 11:18:07

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 !

Jess20 Thu 06-Oct-22 11:32:32

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'.

janipans Thu 06-Oct-22 11:34:43

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!)

GreenGran78 Thu 06-Oct-22 11:38:49

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.

sarahcyn Thu 06-Oct-22 11:38:56

ixion

Andulblance here.

And, for pylons, ^blom bloms^

We have andabulance too!!

Annaram1 Thu 06-Oct-22 11:44:09

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

Coconut Thu 06-Oct-22 11:48:13

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 !

Fassie Thu 06-Oct-22 11:48:17

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

Nannabumble70 Thu 06-Oct-22 11:51:52

Boobies for blueberries my 3yr old gd

Coconut Thu 06-Oct-22 11:52:23

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 ) ?

GreenGran78 Thu 06-Oct-22 11:54:26

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.

coast35 Thu 06-Oct-22 11:58:04

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