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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.

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

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

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

My eldest misread the name Hermione as Hermi-won.

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

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

We also call biscuits "git gits"!

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

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

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

Jim jams were pyjamas

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

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

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

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

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!

Saggi Thu 06-Oct-22 15:48:09

When she was 2 our granddaughter was struggling with words, and my daughter took a vid of her trying to pronounce names of animals on picture flash- cards …. Her interpretation of ‘Flamingo’ came out as ‘ fiffymeemo’ it’s all there on video……to embarrass her in the future . It’s so gorgeously cute.

Edge26 Thu 06-Oct-22 15:56:49

Last week I found some conkers. For some reason my 5 Yr old GS kept calling them mushrooms!!smile

Coco51 Thu 06-Oct-22 16:04:08

Ahh yes. Miss Polly sent for a doctor with a ’dick, dick, dick’!

madeleine45 Thu 06-Oct-22 16:15:34

ambulance was , like fire engines "nee-naws" from the sound

Grannysara Thu 06-Oct-22 16:46:29

Milkowave for microwave!

LizzieDrip Thu 06-Oct-22 16:51:40

When one of my grandsons started talking he used to call me ‘gaggy’ (I am granny)smile Another one used to call the cat flap a ‘flap jack’smile They’re both young men now and cringe when I remind them.

Squiffy Thu 06-Oct-22 16:57:53

A friend's son called the loft conversion a loft confusion!

SueB20 Thu 06-Oct-22 17:08:07

My grandaughter loved an upatee, for cup of tea - she still does and she's 18 now

Pambles01 Thu 06-Oct-22 17:26:19

My youngest daughter always insisted on calling a umbrella an Ella umbra

Soroptimum Thu 06-Oct-22 17:32:55

Elless

When one of my son's was three he knocked his front teeth out and at his nursery the head teacher was called Mr Tucker, you can imagine what my son used to call him ? He also had a foldaway construction site toy which he used to call his 'confruction shite' ??

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Soroptimum Thu 06-Oct-22 17:38:53

Loads!
Combinder Fasteder (Combine Harvester)
Car stramporter (transporter)
Go gee go (motorbike) ?
Destructions (Instructions - which we still use)
Joffis (Joseph)
Shotting list (shopping)
But best of all was when reciting ‘Old King Cole’. Apparently, he’s a Merry #rsehole!

Oldnproud Thu 06-Oct-22 17:43:22

My youngest dgd, who has just started school, calls PE pea / pee / 'P'.

When I picked her up from school and she tried to tell me that her class had had pea where they had dinner (the school hall), or words to that effect, I really had no idea what she meant. It was literally hours before the penny finally dropped!

I smile now when I think of PE.

Bijou Thu 06-Oct-22 17:55:07

When my son was three (73 years ago! ) on drinking a cup of tea he said “this tea is stagerous”. It was too strong.
My daughter at aged two said maw maw for orange.

GreyKnitter Thu 06-Oct-22 18:29:13

My granddaughter loved Christmas and all the titty lights!

HiPpyChick57 Thu 06-Oct-22 19:06:55

Dd used to say pomato basanjes instead of tomato sandwiches.
Apparently my df used to say toot toot instead of beetroot when he was little.
My dn used to love picking the fowlies

Shizam Thu 06-Oct-22 19:16:18

I still say cloclit even though no one in house has called chocolate that for many years ?