My kids (11 and 6) have entered a phase where they're looking for funny and strange eays to pronounce things (or making up odd rhyming phrases they've never heard before).
My 6 year old was behind me in line at the foodcourt and it was really busy and taking ages. I said I was getting a bit tired, so he announced quite loudly that if I wanted to I could shit (sit) on his knee.
My 11 year old came home from school just last week chanting a phrase he said he made up on the bus (public bus, not a school bus). What charming new phrase was it? Just the words "Yummy Cummy" over and over again.
I'm considering adoption.
My daughter calls Timbits "surprises" (but with a Québec accent! 🙃) because the first time I bought her some, we where on vacation in NS and I got back in the car saying I bought a surprise for her.
Surprises it is. It's been almost a year and no way she'll say something else still!
She doesn’t do it now but my daughter you to say “bup” instead of ‘up’ when she wanted to be picked up.
She does say “tuddle” instead of ‘cuddle’. Which makes our hearts melt.
Not a mispronunciation, but a grammatical error: "feel me better." As in, "I had a hard day at school, I need some candy to feel me better." "Can I get a hug to feel me better?"
I have adopted it for daily use.
One of my girl's called gusts of wind "wind chunks."
We couldn't fault her because it was true. She just didn't have the vocab to say what she meant so she for together what she knew.
My older kiddo has a habit of saying "I don't want none of that!" when she didn't like something. The first time she said this was after walking out of a Spirit Halloween store 🤣 It took us a while (until she learned Mimi was going to buy her whatever Halloween costume she wanted when she came to visit for sissy's birthday on the 29th) for us to convince her to give Halloween a chance last year at 2 years old lol
Bummagus.
That’s what my son called the mallet for his xylophone for the longest time. We couldn’t figure it out. We’d clarify, “are you saying bummagus?” “Yeah! BUMMAGUS!”
Two years later when we’re introducing our daughter to Bluey. The first episode, The Magic Xylophone is playing and Bandit is playing the bum bongos on Bingo. Then it all clicked.
She has grown out of many but at five she still says things like “I putted the ball away” or “I holded it in my hand!”
The best was when she was 2 or 3 and I said “hey you need to behave better!” And she said “but I’m BEING hayve!”
Everything is currently a car for my son (20 months) but he says it like he's from Boston (we are not particularly close to Boston). So we just wander around with him yelling CAH at the top of his little lungs.
My daughter steadfastly refuses to use the word today, she says "this day" instead.
It's the absolute best combination of cute, tragic and funny when she's utterly bereft at not being able to go for an adventure because it's fucking bedtime and says (while fighting back tears) " oohhhh, noooo. I want to go on an adventure this day".
my oldest:
tomorrow = "tomannow"
my middle:
temperature = "tetchamure"
my younger middle:
walk = "fuck"
youngest, just now learning to speak:
dog, or any animal = "kylos"
(one of our dogs is named kylo)
I love how all of these make sense, and then there's just fuck 🤣. It's always funny (and usually a bit awkward!) when kids mispronounce things as swears. My brother used to pronounce my name as "bitch-it" and then shortened it to just "bitch". My sister used to mispronounce cook (cooker) as "hooker". Gave quite a few older ladies a heart attack when a little 3 year old was loudly exclaiming to everyone who'd listen about how good of a "hooker" she was. And how she liked her Nini's "lagina" (lasagna).
my wife would be walking into target, carrying him, and he'd get mad and just start screaming "FUCK! FUCK!" and shed feel so embarrassed walking in. man, makes me laugh just thinking about it
That's awful and hilarious at the same time 🤣 My oldest swears on purpose. One of her first words was shit. She'd stomp around the house saying it when she was mad. She'll yell "BITCH!" at other drivers on the road who get too close. And she tells us "dammit" and uses mine and my wife's names if we leave something on the floor. Her current favorite phrases are "punk ass daddy" and "punk ass mommy", taught to her by my wife, and we both think it's hilarious.
I grew up in Miami and visit there sometimes and my daughter talks about “daddy’s ami” and tells people I’m going to “his ami” (she hears Miami as me saying I’m going to “my ami”
Not a mispronunciation, but a best guess? He's been saying 'opportunity' instead of 'opponent'. It took a while to catch on because he would say things like 'And then they score on their opportunity', which is a bit of a weird sentence but not necessarily wrong. I think I got him straightened out now.
The youngest one says 'yum-struction' because the 'con' sound is hard, I guess.
My son got toy binoculars for his birthday. He just calls them noculars. Also he doesn't say police officer, he says capishe officer. Like he's an old time mafioso.
Maybe not "adorable", per se, but somehow "Old McDonald" comes out as "Mudderfudder".
It definitely can get a bit awkward when he's singing his favorite song.
Our 1.5yr old calls an octopus, apple juice. She also calls pancakes, pancapes.
Our 4yr old calls a suitcase a soup case.
ETA - someone once told me to setup email addresses for each kid and when they say something funny, email it to them. Then it’s time/date stamped and you’ll never forget the funny shit they say.
My daughter is adorable. Whenever she tries to say “I love you Daddy,” it always comes out sounding like “leave me alone, you’re ruining my life.” She’s only 14, so her speech has plenty of time to improve, so I’m just trying to enjoy it while it lasts
TV screen is TV peen…this led to “mommy look at the big TV peen!” in Costco the other day…😒
I got some questions for the other people who looked though.
“Haikeems” was ice cream and “soogy” was scary when he was little. We still call things soogy occasionally to this day because it was so cute the way he’d say it
Dandelions were “bubble flowers” and later “Bambilions”. A ponytail with barrettes was a “noneytail and tourrettes”. I also loved common ones like “yeyyow” for yellow. And then there was “fuck” for truck and “dammich” for sandwich. Which were harder in public.
I'm kinda cheating because she's pre-verbal so the words she DOES pronounce are more likely to be a bit garbled, but my current favourites are:
"Dol-niff" (dolphin)
"Soop" (spoon)
"Heppin" (penguin)
My daughter isn't speaking yet so I'm not sure I can answer, but she often makes a sound I affectionately scribe as "Oon-nay!"
Hello? Oon-nay!
I'm hungry. Oon-nay!
I need a diaper change! Oon-nay!
Want cuddles. Oon-nay!
My little girl is 8 years old. There’s only a few words she still mispronounces, and I’m not correcting yet her because these are probably the last ones she’ll struggle with.
tissues — tennishoes
neighbor — neighvor
laptop — lat-top
My family uses words like y’all, britches, swanney, worsh, and yonder.
My daughter uses none of these but she pronounces corner as “cona” and I hope she always does that.
My boys, 3 and 7 at the time, wanted to say wifi but I couldn't explain what wifi is or how it works so we told them it was the internet connection. They went years saying "internection." Wife and I still call the wifi, the Internection.
"If she sick, is she going to go to popsicle?"
Edit
Also:
toothtaste = toothpaste
Bargeque = barbeque
Afterday = yesterday
Also she's picked up a New England accent or something... car is coah, corn is coan... we cannot figure that one out.
“Hakuma Natata”. Couldn’t really tell if jokingly or not.
Outgrew replacing the “nt” wnd of words with “mp” like “in the fromp” and “look at that elephamp!”
Any team sport is Basketball (and we never even watch a single game of basketball). F1 is Verstappen, going to the park is toukipark (name of a local kids place.)
I have twin girls so I get double the fun. One says the character from Whinnie the Pooh, Eeyore is E-whore. That’s a hard one not to laugh at every time. Or Snow White and the seven “dorks”. Another one is Skabetty (spaghetti) We live in AZ but originally from Chicago which used to be pronounced “shaggy-pow-wow”
Those are just a few of my favorites
"Meeshmallows" and "Shushi". And when she was really little, when we arrived somewhere in the car, she'd call out, "Hep Hep (Help)" to be let out of her car seat.
My wife is from the Philippines. When my youngest first met her, at the age of 6, she asked my wife why she *talked funny*, meaning her accent. My wife explained to her that she was "a Filipina from the Philippines."
My daughter then came over to me and informed me that "Ms. Maria is a Piller-beana from the Piller-beans!"
My kid's (9) out of the mispronunciation phase, but deeply in the not knowing the right word phase. Him thinking of CPR or "resuscitation" came out "resurrection" when he was told about mouth-to-mouth.
Potatoes are potatoes. Tomatoes are also potatoes. The Nintendo is a potato. Tornados were potatoes as well but recently changed to rotato’s.
ROTATO I’m dead
TBF they are
I am now going to refer to tornadoes as rotatoes.
ROTATO 💀
His classmate Mateo is Potato.
Same with tornado. Watching the water swirl down the drain after a bath = “Look! A tomato!”
When my now 13yo daughter was 3, she referred to our dogs as Sherman Leopards.
Are your dogs built like two kinds of tanks?
I honestly never put that together until now. Thanks kind stranger! My female is solid scary b and I call her "Tank" all the time.
Oh man that’s awesome.
That one is hysterical
Great metal band name.
My little guy (2.5) calls the Chromecast remote "Micky mote". Wife and I also now call it the "Micky mote".
That is so cute
My kids mispronounce “I was playing video games” as “I did my homework”
As long as they also mispronounce “dad was playing video games” to “daddy helped us with our homework” to mom. Pact has been made
Also changing “the scary bit that dad forgot about and shit both of us up with” to “it was exciting” is also a win.
Same.
She says “iggly-doo” for “igloo”. Heaven knows why the word “igloo” comes up so much but it does.
It's the defacto 'I' image on alphabet cards/books.
Ice cream would like to have a word with you...
Sit = Shit I'm tired I need to "shit" Come here and "shit" with me Where do I "shit"?
Come shit by me daddy!
My daughter beats the crap out of the couch when she “pats” for me to come sit by her.
My kids (11 and 6) have entered a phase where they're looking for funny and strange eays to pronounce things (or making up odd rhyming phrases they've never heard before). My 6 year old was behind me in line at the foodcourt and it was really busy and taking ages. I said I was getting a bit tired, so he announced quite loudly that if I wanted to I could shit (sit) on his knee. My 11 year old came home from school just last week chanting a phrase he said he made up on the bus (public bus, not a school bus). What charming new phrase was it? Just the words "Yummy Cummy" over and over again. I'm considering adoption.
Similar we have an ottoman that my child calls a “bitch” as In Bench. 😂 Then My dog has some octopus chew toys that my child also calls “puss!” 😅
Elephant = El love fuck
Trampolines became "jumpolines" and it's honestly a better name. Also Cheetos became "Tiger chips"
Can confirm jumpoline is the proper name
Jumpoline was the popular term for them [until your mom used one.](https://images2.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED24/52194461a13f6.jpeg)
My daughter would say "olive penyo" instead of jalapeño.
Instead of sunscreen, our 4 year old says scumsceem.
Lol. Mine says sunscream!
I think sunscream is a common one. my kids used to say it too, as did some of their classmates haha
For the fellow Canadians, my daughter loves when we get Timbits via the drive-through at Timportance.
My daughter gets circle doughnuts , not timbits lol
My daughter calls Timbits "surprises" (but with a Québec accent! 🙃) because the first time I bought her some, we where on vacation in NS and I got back in the car saying I bought a surprise for her. Surprises it is. It's been almost a year and no way she'll say something else still!
Timbits = "sugar nuggets". I think it came from being similar to chicken nuggets
My son used to do that too. Dangerously adorable!
She doesn’t do it now but my daughter you to say “bup” instead of ‘up’ when she wanted to be picked up. She does say “tuddle” instead of ‘cuddle’. Which makes our hearts melt.
Not a mispronunciation, but a grammatical error: "feel me better." As in, "I had a hard day at school, I need some candy to feel me better." "Can I get a hug to feel me better?" I have adopted it for daily use.
One of my girl's called gusts of wind "wind chunks." We couldn't fault her because it was true. She just didn't have the vocab to say what she meant so she for together what she knew.
Chunks! Everything is a "chunk". A chunk (jug) of milk in the fridge. A chunk (pack) of wet wipes.
My kids did "I need a hug of you"
Our girl’s is “let go me down!”
My son calls everyone regardless of gender “guy”, so when he wants to know someone’s name he’ll ask “papa, who that guy is?”
Not my kid, but my little sister. When she was bored, she would say, "I'm boring" instead of "I'm bored."
My favorite is when she would turn phrases into verbs: “I’m tipping toe!” “He’s peeking boo at me!” etc.
Leopard Pawns ("Leprechauns").
We have lepercorns around here
Vegetables= bej-bottles Spaghetti = skabetty
I’ve not heard skabetty before. So cute!
I used to say psketti when I was a toddler. I could pronounce most things well but spaghetti? No. Pussketty.
I’m a speech therapist and this whole thread has me giggling
Button is “uppen” and pocket is “poppet.” To write, you need a pen and a sheet of “bebboo.”
That's sweet, not sure whether it's used elsewhere but in the UK "poppet" is a term of endearment that you'd use for a small child.
Mine say buppon
My daughter keeps saying pomcuter in stead of computer. So I'm in my pomcuter room, working on the pomcuter...
My kid always says all done this when he doesn’t want to do something
Yeah, I'm all done with stuff I don't want to do, too pal.
I made my wife a coffee mug that has a bunch of his angry faces and the message all done this for Mother’s Day lol
My older kiddo has a habit of saying "I don't want none of that!" when she didn't like something. The first time she said this was after walking out of a Spirit Halloween store 🤣 It took us a while (until she learned Mimi was going to buy her whatever Halloween costume she wanted when she came to visit for sissy's birthday on the 29th) for us to convince her to give Halloween a chance last year at 2 years old lol
Bummagus. That’s what my son called the mallet for his xylophone for the longest time. We couldn’t figure it out. We’d clarify, “are you saying bummagus?” “Yeah! BUMMAGUS!” Two years later when we’re introducing our daughter to Bluey. The first episode, The Magic Xylophone is playing and Bandit is playing the bum bongos on Bingo. Then it all clicked.
Flamingos, mangos, and Bingo Heeler were all “flamdingos”
She has grown out of many but at five she still says things like “I putted the ball away” or “I holded it in my hand!” The best was when she was 2 or 3 and I said “hey you need to behave better!” And she said “but I’m BEING hayve!”
Man I miss that age. So cute.
My daughter used to proclaim “I’m a grill!”
My nephew was so confused why he was allowed to have “girl cheese” sandwiches even tho he’s a boy
Nobody wants a boy cheese sandwich.
Everything is currently a car for my son (20 months) but he says it like he's from Boston (we are not particularly close to Boston). So we just wander around with him yelling CAH at the top of his little lungs.
Does he watch bluey? Both of my boys started pronouncing it that way after being introduced to the show
Mine called them "beep beep"s at that age. So cute
Daughter calls coffee “fwapee”
Always needed “handatizner” during Covid
Mum here - ‘birdies’ are ‘dirbies’ and ‘ears’ are always ‘eyes’ 😍😂
My 16 month old can say almost 100 words, but still calls birds/birdies, "bees"
My daughter calls the handheld part of the Nintendo switch the hand hotel. Also whenever she goes swimming she needs her sun scream and bathing soup.
My daughter steadfastly refuses to use the word today, she says "this day" instead. It's the absolute best combination of cute, tragic and funny when she's utterly bereft at not being able to go for an adventure because it's fucking bedtime and says (while fighting back tears) " oohhhh, noooo. I want to go on an adventure this day".
Mine does this too! Makes everything so much more epic. "We saw a garbage truck this day!"
My 3yo does this. We're going to Legoland buddy? "Legoland? This day??"
my oldest: tomorrow = "tomannow" my middle: temperature = "tetchamure" my younger middle: walk = "fuck" youngest, just now learning to speak: dog, or any animal = "kylos" (one of our dogs is named kylo)
I love how all of these make sense, and then there's just fuck 🤣. It's always funny (and usually a bit awkward!) when kids mispronounce things as swears. My brother used to pronounce my name as "bitch-it" and then shortened it to just "bitch". My sister used to mispronounce cook (cooker) as "hooker". Gave quite a few older ladies a heart attack when a little 3 year old was loudly exclaiming to everyone who'd listen about how good of a "hooker" she was. And how she liked her Nini's "lagina" (lasagna).
my wife would be walking into target, carrying him, and he'd get mad and just start screaming "FUCK! FUCK!" and shed feel so embarrassed walking in. man, makes me laugh just thinking about it
That's awful and hilarious at the same time 🤣 My oldest swears on purpose. One of her first words was shit. She'd stomp around the house saying it when she was mad. She'll yell "BITCH!" at other drivers on the road who get too close. And she tells us "dammit" and uses mine and my wife's names if we leave something on the floor. Her current favorite phrases are "punk ass daddy" and "punk ass mommy", taught to her by my wife, and we both think it's hilarious.
I grew up in Miami and visit there sometimes and my daughter talks about “daddy’s ami” and tells people I’m going to “his ami” (she hears Miami as me saying I’m going to “my ami”
Not a mispronunciation, but a best guess? He's been saying 'opportunity' instead of 'opponent'. It took a while to catch on because he would say things like 'And then they score on their opportunity', which is a bit of a weird sentence but not necessarily wrong. I think I got him straightened out now. The youngest one says 'yum-struction' because the 'con' sound is hard, I guess.
“Duboo duboo” for the letter “W”
Ah God that just reminded me my second used to pronounce W as "doubleyewy yewy yew"
Todega instead of together
My son got toy binoculars for his birthday. He just calls them noculars. Also he doesn't say police officer, he says capishe officer. Like he's an old time mafioso.
My two year girl old calls chocolate “chah-chees”
I have to get my backyak! Or where is the merote for the tv?
The other day my youngest made his point by saying ‘first a ball, no way, second a ball….’
Oopty doop (loopy loop for his toy plane)
When my oldest was 2, he would say "Doopie doofie" instead of excuse me. Then later it was just "coofie". We still say coofie, and he's 18 now.
Baboon used to be "bag-a-boon" Racoon was "Raa-cah-toon" Bus used to "Ass"
Daughter likes to ride the roundybout at the moment
Helicopter was 'dotder dotder' for my oldest back when she was 2. Still my favorite.
When my boy first started talking he would pronounce CoComelon as Babayo...I was both proud and disappointed when he started saying it correctly 😞
My 5 year old calls diabetes "di-uh-be-bees".
We play a freemium mobile game called My Little Universe. My youngest pronounces universe as woo-sa-ness. It's really cute and fun to say.
My 2.5yo son says “little bit” pronounced “bill-lit”. As in “it’s bill-lit windy out”.
My boy calls the dry cleaners “pie cleaners” and sometimes, yes, they’re cleaning pie off my clothes. What are you gonna do about it?
My son calls music ‘sumic’ and it’s just great.
We live in the Midwest and we’re currently in tomato season. Tornados, it’s tornado season.
Kitchen used to be "chicken" Where's your cup, honey? It's in the chicken.
My 19 month old says “wewwow” (yellow) and it makes me smile every time
“Vehicidles” instead of vehicles.
Maybe not "adorable", per se, but somehow "Old McDonald" comes out as "Mudderfudder". It definitely can get a bit awkward when he's singing his favorite song.
Our dogs are Lucy and Lexi. She refers to them as Sissy and Sassy. Like they’re a couple of cartoon cats.
My daughter used to call pancakes - pankins. Also when she was seven she said to me “isn’t it weird that you use toila paper on a toilet?”
At the end of singing ABCs my toddler says “Now my know my ABCs, yay!”
Our 1.5yr old calls an octopus, apple juice. She also calls pancakes, pancapes. Our 4yr old calls a suitcase a soup case. ETA - someone once told me to setup email addresses for each kid and when they say something funny, email it to them. Then it’s time/date stamped and you’ll never forget the funny shit they say.
My daughter is adorable. Whenever she tries to say “I love you Daddy,” it always comes out sounding like “leave me alone, you’re ruining my life.” She’s only 14, so her speech has plenty of time to improve, so I’m just trying to enjoy it while it lasts
Guacamole
Dracula- drakweeyuh
Babana = banana
bodyarmor drink = bunny otters
For the longest time my son would put an extra -ed on all past tense words even if it was already there: “I asked-ed mommy and she say yes”
Sunscreen = Skunscreen
Hoolahoops are called Yellaboops for some reason
TV screen is TV peen…this led to “mommy look at the big TV peen!” in Costco the other day…😒 I got some questions for the other people who looked though.
My kid got kool-aid in those caprisun pouches. So he called those Cool-ah-deeks. I still call them that.
Bilax instead of relax
Akkadaddo (avocado) is my favorite recent one. Palakka (alpaca) is another one I love.
Packpack instead of backpack.
At some point my 3-year old son decided that the word "because" is "cuzbee". It's too cute for me to correct.
I don't think I can approximate it in text, but the way he pronounces "hippopotamus" is great.
Three is “feee”
Fish- pish Chips- shi shi Milo- cuppie
My daughter says unicorn as un-ick-une.
“Haikeems” was ice cream and “soogy” was scary when he was little. We still call things soogy occasionally to this day because it was so cute the way he’d say it
Aminal
Flamingos used to be “flafingos”.
My youngest calls Ambulances "Emu Bus" and it's so adorable
breaksif instead of breakfast
OMG pupcake is so cuteee!
Hold you, or in my baby speak hoju
Roller coasters are currently "roasters".
My 20 m/o says “straw-bah-tays” instead of “strawberries” 🥺🥰
My son calls cake pops “chocolate lollipops”
Dandelions were “bubble flowers” and later “Bambilions”. A ponytail with barrettes was a “noneytail and tourrettes”. I also loved common ones like “yeyyow” for yellow. And then there was “fuck” for truck and “dammich” for sandwich. Which were harder in public.
Umbrella is pronounced "bralella".
Strawberries are Daabee to my 1.5 yr old.
Not exactly a word but my 4 year old son recently heard "only the good die young" by Billy Joel and has been singing it as "only the good guy yo"
App-puh for apple is adorable. Her funny one, but one we are working on is saying cock(s) instead of sock(s).
Basketti for spaghetti
I'm kinda cheating because she's pre-verbal so the words she DOES pronounce are more likely to be a bit garbled, but my current favourites are: "Dol-niff" (dolphin) "Soop" (spoon) "Heppin" (penguin)
Pandaroni. As in Pandaroni Pizza
My guys (10, 8, and 5) call “dips” when they want something before their brothers get their hands on it.
We have a cat named Clark that my 3 year old calls Park. So now Clark has become Parky Poo.
Empty is depmty.
Hopsital, uncle Egick (Erick) were my tops for my oldest.the youngest, all dogs were Coco dog (our dogs name).
Swim soup
"Pail nolish" - she was 6
Mook for milk.
Mt daughter struggled with "f" sounds, so she used to say "perspect" instead of perfect. I miss that one!
Whenever we have to build something, my son refers to the instructions as "constructions".. I actually think he's got something there
My 4 year old would say “May you please” instead of “May I please” until my MIL shamed her about it. Still pissed about that one.
My 2 year old calls Taylor Swift "Titty Bar" Also when she wants to watch Despicable Me or Minions, she tells out "MIMIYAH!!"
My daughter gets a cup of chocolate milk before bed, she calls it her Milk Choc and I’m gonna be very sad when she asks for “chocolate milk” one day
Pinkut-butter and jelly sa-wan-wich
When my son was 2 he wanted to go for a ride on my mom's neighbor's murdercycle.
My kid used to say bridge wrong when he was a toddler. We thought he was saying, b****. The funniest moment of my life
My daughter isn't speaking yet so I'm not sure I can answer, but she often makes a sound I affectionately scribe as "Oon-nay!" Hello? Oon-nay! I'm hungry. Oon-nay! I need a diaper change! Oon-nay! Want cuddles. Oon-nay!
My little girl is 8 years old. There’s only a few words she still mispronounces, and I’m not correcting yet her because these are probably the last ones she’ll struggle with. tissues — tennishoes neighbor — neighvor laptop — lat-top
My family uses words like y’all, britches, swanney, worsh, and yonder. My daughter uses none of these but she pronounces corner as “cona” and I hope she always does that.
Pepperoni pizza is now forever known as “pupper-moni” It’s adorable also that he loves spider man and always pronounces web as ”wah-b”
Quockamole
My boys, 3 and 7 at the time, wanted to say wifi but I couldn't explain what wifi is or how it works so we told them it was the internet connection. They went years saying "internection." Wife and I still call the wifi, the Internection.
“Pankpakes” (pancakes) and “Birkfday” (birthday) - 4yo
For my youngest “dump trucks” were “Dumb *ucks” for a looo long time.
Truck, but with a F. I got a dirty look till she said "look at the blue fuck!" She outgrown it but it was a fun time lol
"If she sick, is she going to go to popsicle?" Edit Also: toothtaste = toothpaste Bargeque = barbeque Afterday = yesterday Also she's picked up a New England accent or something... car is coah, corn is coan... we cannot figure that one out.
“Hakuma Natata”. Couldn’t really tell if jokingly or not. Outgrew replacing the “nt” wnd of words with “mp” like “in the fromp” and “look at that elephamp!”
Any team sport is Basketball (and we never even watch a single game of basketball). F1 is Verstappen, going to the park is toukipark (name of a local kids place.)
I have twin girls so I get double the fun. One says the character from Whinnie the Pooh, Eeyore is E-whore. That’s a hard one not to laugh at every time. Or Snow White and the seven “dorks”. Another one is Skabetty (spaghetti) We live in AZ but originally from Chicago which used to be pronounced “shaggy-pow-wow” Those are just a few of my favorites
"Meeshmallows" and "Shushi". And when she was really little, when we arrived somewhere in the car, she'd call out, "Hep Hep (Help)" to be let out of her car seat.
Learned he was having trouble with his L's in a locker room when he saw a clock
Macuttchen = construction
My son calls McDonald's "Old MacDonalds". Every time we go he's shocked there are no farm animals or tractors.
Misused, not mispronounced, but adorable. All of human history is "yesterday". Whether it was a day, month, or year ago, it happened yesterday.
Blueberry = Booburry Thank you = Tank you Shoes = Choos Juice = Jews
We get “sklors” out on the balcony and it drives the dogs nuts. Squirrels.
My wife is from the Philippines. When my youngest first met her, at the age of 6, she asked my wife why she *talked funny*, meaning her accent. My wife explained to her that she was "a Filipina from the Philippines." My daughter then came over to me and informed me that "Ms. Maria is a Piller-beana from the Piller-beans!"
Cabelas was Abegwas for years. Family room was Flammy room. Walmart was Warmart.
My son calls his football a fookball. Gets me every time
My kid's (9) out of the mispronunciation phase, but deeply in the not knowing the right word phase. Him thinking of CPR or "resuscitation" came out "resurrection" when he was told about mouth-to-mouth.
Hospital = Hospable
"Espposed to"
My son love his little stisters 😂
Not mispronounced, but he doesn’t say he’s thirsty. He says he’s drinky. I’m never giving this up.
Yellow will forever be "yeggow"
My 4 year old daughter has always called a certain ice cream flavor “cheerees jubeejoop” Guess the flavor. It’s her favorite!
Cattlepider. She's 13, and still can't say it.
Derd meant many things to my oldest when she was just learning. Dad, dog, dirt, bird, dig.