words that grandchildren mispronounce

Sorts for sausages?‍♀️ flowfs for flowers, eyespotter for a theodolite a surveyor was using on a building site, which I thought was cute?

Sorry, it was ‘Gwanny’. My spell checker seems to correcting my typing into a completely different language!

DS1: 'Cimena' for cinema, ParkCar for car park. 40 years later he still says cimena!

DS2: 'Snarsnips' for parsnips.
We still call them that, in fact I once asked for snarsnips in Tesco. The assistant's face was a picture.

Wyllow3

I shall be devastated when I stop being gan-ma and he can say his "r's".

I loved being called Geannoe’ when my 2 oldest GC were little.

Over summer, my GD discovered the cat hides in the attic when there are children in the house! She was fascinated by finding a room right at the top of our house, and named it ‘the addick’ !

When my DGD was 4 said "diapissad" instead of disappeared, she will be 18 this month.
My cousin who is now in his 50's used to call his feet 'feek' I bet you can imagine what the word for foot was.

Oops -should have written " it's" not "its". I do have some standards!

Eliop pop pop- helicopter. Mazzerine - magazine. Ich bindy - its windy. All still in use 42 years later.

We still use tentraber for temperature, my son came home from school and said 'Mrs Smith thinks I might have a tentraber'. My daughter always said vigenar for vinegar

My son, as a small boy, used to say ‘window screamers’ for
windscreen wipers! I’ve always liked that!

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

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.

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 ) ?

Boobies for blueberries my 3yr old gd

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

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 !

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

ixion

Andulblance here.

And, for pylons, ^blom bloms^

We have andabulance too!!

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.

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!)

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'.

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 !

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!)

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.

I could fancy a dibbit now!

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