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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.

Gwenisgreat1 Thu 06-Oct-22 15:42:52

My 6 year old DGD no longer calls blueberries boobiels, or strawberries stawbiels. But a lot a creatures are still aminals. Her mother used to insist that we sat on a settetee, and her favourite colour was Ellow!! We would be corrected if we did not pronounce them her way. Her sister loved gravery on her meat!

CBBL Thu 06-Oct-22 15:38:48

I loved hearing "warbrobe" and "heffalump" i.e. Wardrobe and Elephant!

grandMattie Thu 06-Oct-22 15:35:30

Our last used to call vouchers “vultures”. I still call them that…

Tamayra Thu 06-Oct-22 15:13:27

Jim jams were pyjamas

Kathmaggie Thu 06-Oct-22 14:51:31

Raspberries were always sabrries and the computer was a conamfuter! ?

Sparklefairydust Thu 06-Oct-22 14:49:19

We also call biscuits "git gits"!

JdotJ Thu 06-Oct-22 14:47:16

When my daughter was very young she called a biscuit a 'bit sick' and we still call them that over 30 years later smile

Ilovedragonflies Thu 06-Oct-22 14:28:39

My eldest misread the name Hermione as Hermi-won.

Oldnproud Thu 06-Oct-22 14:15:12

Our dgd age 9 has only recently stopped saying veggibles for vegetables.

Treetops05 Thu 06-Oct-22 14:08:17

We had tac tac tors for tractors and penpines for penguin

Kikibee Thu 06-Oct-22 13:59:08

Marks Expensive for M&S!

Yes it is!

krazykat Thu 06-Oct-22 13:55:08

I work with adults with learning difficulties and was told by one of the ladies earlier they were collecting red rum.
Later I realised she meant bread crumbs for the ducks.

MamaB247 Thu 06-Oct-22 13:53:40

Not so much mispronounced words rather than how they are strung together. But when my DS was in reception I once had his teacher very embarrassingly come up and ask if we could teach him the correct way to phrase knife and fork. Because he would say Fork & Knife and sound like he was cursing each time. We sat down and had a chat with him and so did teacher. So later when he repeated Fork & Knife his teacher calmly reminded him that "Do you remember the conversation we had about how you can't ask for a Fork & Knife" like that? My son forgetting our explanation or not understanding turned round hands on hips and said "Well fine I suppose I'll have a Fork n Spoon then please"

Sounded like Fork & Knife = F@#&ing Knife and Fork & Spoon like F@#&ing Spoon.

Rosina Thu 06-Oct-22 13:52:56

Out in the car my two year old suggested that I put on the 'windscreeper wipers' when it started to rain. I almost slipped up and used that term in Halfords last year when buying a new set.

GardenofEngland Thu 06-Oct-22 13:48:14

My 3 yr old grandson says cardiganon. We kept wondering why. All was explained the childminder says to all her kids when going out don't forget to put your cardigan on!

Sparklefairydust Thu 06-Oct-22 13:43:36

We still say argme instead of argue and I was called Gammy before GC could pronounce Rs.

TillyWhiz Thu 06-Oct-22 13:38:14

Our little granddaughter called us 'Nanny and Ganker' for a while. Out for Sunday lunch with hye family, the whole pub went on Pause when she called him from across the room! grin

missdeke Thu 06-Oct-22 13:37:43

Coin apple for pineapple or pine cone. Balarns, for pyjamas or bananas. Sky pencil for a vapour trail, too many to go into here, I think I could write a book!!

Witzend Thu 06-Oct-22 13:14:49

At the start of my 2nd year at school, where we all had our names next to our pegs for coats, I thought one of the new kindergarten lot had a very weird name - who ever heard of a girl called Peen-lope?

MissAdventure Thu 06-Oct-22 13:10:50

Gwanny. smile
That's really sweet.

Diggingdoris Thu 06-Oct-22 13:09:04

Mum told me that I always wanted biginer on my chips.
Granddaughter could not master vegetables, and they were vegebles for years.
Our youngest granddaughter, just 2 loves to pick the buddertups on my lawn.

Dorado Thu 06-Oct-22 13:06:52

Can I have some “Cheese and Parmas” on my spaghetti too, please?

Zetacatty Thu 06-Oct-22 13:01:47

I used to run a playgroup and DH said I should write a book about all the lovely things children say. One that sticks in my mind is when a little boy asked me why ‘blueloons’ were called blue when they come in lots of colours. A friends child pointed a field of sheep and said ‘they’re not moo cows, they’re baaf rooms’.

Nanna58 Thu 06-Oct-22 12:59:34

When we had building work going on our daughter of 5 said we were having ‘ a lost extemption ‘ ( loft extension )

narrowboatnan Thu 06-Oct-22 12:52:12

Burple loons we’re my DGS’s favourite - purple balloons