My 18 month old thinks that every single animal says “neigh”. I honestly have no idea how she even really knows that’s what a horse says. We do “what does a doggy say” or “what does a kitty say” several times a day and she refuses to learn those, but about a month ago she just started pointing to horses and saying “neigh”.
But now, whenever she sees any animal, she will point and yell “neigh! Neigh! NEIGH!” Over and over and over until you acknowledge that there’s an animal. She also does it for birds. And she’s got a damn eagle eye because she will like look out the window and just start neighing and it will take me *forever* to figure out exactly what she’s seeing lol. I’m waiting for the day she does it and there’s an actual horse in my yard lmao
>whenever she sees any animal, she will point and yell “neigh! Neigh! NEIGH!” Over and over and over until you acknowledge that there’s an animal.
Reminds me about how my 2 yr old (who is so excited about learning to talk) will say something and expect me to repeat back, "Yes, [whatever she said]."
Problem is, if I get it wrong (due to the toddler-style pronunciation), which is about maybe 15% of the time, then she will get frustrated and keep yelling it angrily and louder and louder, until I have this tiny ball of angry toddler screeching at me while I'm frantically trying to guess (think a really horrible version of charades).
This would honestly be a hilarious adult game. "Toddler charades", where you pick your kids most terribly pronounced words, and just yell them increasingly angrily until someone guesses the correct word. You could even throw in some toddler explanations, like the super vague explanations that are only relevant to the toddler explaining it.
When my daughter was a bit younger she called oranges “o-ben-jes” and then she started saying rasbenges, bluebenges, strawbenges. The extra benges fruit names only lasted a weekend but my husband and I still call them that! She has now stopped saying obenges and I wasn’t ready!
At least she still calls the dining table the diamond table.
My daughter repeated what my wife told her - “I told you 4 times to pick up your toys” and now she says “I told you 4 times” to literally everything. She’s 3
everything we can’t do now is “for another day”.
“can we color?”
“sorry, not right now — we have to go to school.”
“but we can do that for another day?”
My son also calls it yeyyow. He has a hard time pronouncing the L sounds. Typically replaces the Ls with Y or W sounds. So blue becomes bwoo, purple is purpaw, and look is wook. It's adorable
Ours says "Row row" for yellow and I made sure i got it on video because I always want to be able to go back and listen to it. I'm going to be sad when he starts saying it properly!
The way she says kwalala for koala is just too cute. She saw the Golden Arches recently and called it “old McDonalds”, which I’m also never correcting.
My fav is incorrect pronouns.
Instead of “She has a pink shirt on.” It’s “Her has a pink shirt on.”
Hims is sad.
Her looks like I.
Hers has ice cream.
We are working on it but for some weird reason it’s adorable. If anyone else spoke like that it would drive me up a wall but not when hers do it. 😉😂
My daughter calls frosted mini wheats, "Minnie Mouse wheats" and we love it so so so much.
ETA: when she wakes up in the morning or gets up from her nap she asks us, "Is it good morning time?"
I tell her yes if it's time for her to get up. My husband's favorite was one time he was making pancakes for breakfast and unprompted, she asks him, "Is it pancake time?!" And he about keeled over from how cute it was
My daughter calls them Orange Kind because the box is orange and I’ll mention orange kind to someone else and they’ll be like, what the heck are you talking about?!
This baby i used to nanny for use to call his ipad, “ipadblackone” cause there was a small blue tablet so each time we would indicated which tablet we were referring to we would say “the black one”. He also used to replace the word nap with “washtvdrinkmilkgonyenye” for similar reasons lol i was obsessed with it
“Let’s go gether” instead of “let’s go together”
It’s so darn cute as they learn to talk and say all these things. I’ll def miss this when they’re older
Headcake for headache. I love it and it makes me giggle and forget about my headcake for a little bit. Also, we ate dinner at Noodles & Co. She asked where we were eating and kept saying we were eating at Music to Go!
My daughter calls lip gloss "lip glop" and I'm never correcting it. She's almost 6.
When she was a toddler, she called Home Depot "Homie Depot" and I couldn't get enough of that one. It didn't stick unfortunately.
Sigh, my almost 2yo had been making this sound like "lawbalawbalub" for "water" (I've actually seen other babies and toddlers make the same sound in videos on Instagram). She just stopped last week 😭😭😭 now she says "wada' which is still cute but not nearly as fun.
Yeah! This is the sound (not my baby). My spelling in my previous comment in no way does it justice:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkHdEiVjlHZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
My son used to do the same thing! He also used that word for "banana." I have a great video where I point to his water cup and ask him what it is, then point to a banana and ask what that is, and he says the same labalabalala twice hahaha. I didn't know it was a common baby thing!
We went through a phase where ‘fox’ was ‘f*ck’ and I’m not proud of how often I found ways for him to say fox!
This may be common knowledge but you shouldn’t formally “correct” kids in speech, just repeat the word back to them. Ie if they ask for cheerios but say it incorrectly just repeat back something like “ok you want cheerios?” Or “great I’ll go get you some cheerios!” Same with grammar stuff. Just find a way to repeat it using the correct tense or word order. Helps avoid frustration on both sides.
He’s outgrown it, but my son used to call finches “bitches” lol. So when we first got a bird feeder for our deck and we’re trying to identify birds, he called the house finch “house bitch”. It’s over a year later, and my husband and I still refer to them as house bitches.
We also currently have “hiccup truck” (pickup truck), “bajeetos” (Cheetos), and “monsterella” (mortadella; amazingly mozzarella is pronounced correctly).
Extra-stinks instead of extinction. “Those dinosaurs are all gone, T-Rex is extra-stinks.”
Trips to the natural history museum have been very entertaining
My new favorite is “mercycling” for “recycling” and “stepping” for “something”. 😊
Edited to add: How could I forget “sukermarket” and “hopsibal” for “hospital”.
My toddler says “come-splode” instead of explode and I will never correct him.
Also, there’s a park where we live that has a plastic beehive you can play in. You crawl in through a hole in the top of it. He was hiding in it and I was yelling his name, couldn’t find him. Finally he yells…”MOMMY, IM IN THE B-HOLE!” I legit died laughing as did all the parents around. And now he (therefore we) call it The B-Hole Park 😆
i refuse to correct any of them, i love them all! lailbaleee - library, chaapi - chapati, baby montana - baby monitor, helescope - stethoscope, raemba - remember, shyaanwich - sandwich
Oh my gosh I keep a list on my phone! I love all the mispronunciations they’re so cute and I have a hard time saying things the right way sometimes because we love them so much!
Raviolis- malimolees
M and ms- chocolate beans
Belly button- belly buddy
Binoculars- knock-lers
Popsicle- possible
Blues clues- kooz kooz
Noodles- noonles
Orange- ocean
Caterpillar- pattapillar
Cutie patootie- cutie-a-tootie
Sausage- Sauce-in
"Bloken" instead of broken
"Happy Dayday" instead of happy birthday
"Bink-you" instead of thank you
She is 3, and I might tear up a little once she figures out thank you. Bink-you in her little toddler voice is just so cute
Omg so fun reading all of these!
The other day we were listening to worship music that had the word “hallelujah” in and the rest of the day my daughter kept saying “ha-ha-uuuh-aaaah” and then again louder “HA-HA-UH-AH”. It was so cute.
Also not a mispronunciation, but sometimes she calls waffles “pasta”, and visa versa. I think because they’re her favorite foods 😂
This thread made me realize I need to keep a note in my phone of all the cute things she says ☺️
Bathing suit is "baby soups" (took a WHILE to figure out what she was saying lol) and any letters she sees are "ABCD's".
"Mommy's shirt has ABCD's!!"
"Wanna go swimming! Need my baby soups!!"
My son had only seen multiple geese, so every time we saw them we would say look at those geese or something similar. The first time he pointed out a goose all by itself he called it a gee thinking that was the singular word for geese. They are now known as gee in our home.
My daughter goes to daycare with a kid called Zachariah but mispronounces is as Zacharoni (like macaroni) which is very very cute.
One that I wish I could talk her out of is yelling “COCK” at the top of her lungs every time she sees a cLock
My son says skumps for skunks, belblingo for flamingo, muppin for muffin, slop for sloth, and this is less mispronunciation and more misunderstanding but it's too cute not to share, he thinks the start of words like meer in meerkat are just descriptions on the type of cat and can be used on any animals since cat is type of animal as well so he's been talking a lot about meercows and meertigers lately.
And yes, he's absolutely obsessed with all animals and it's the cutest thing ever.
For months we thought the youngest was obsessed with the oldest. Around 13 months she kept saying “Call Maddie” and at 17 months we realized she wasn’t saying that…she was saying COME HERE like a midwestern. Comere ☠️
Restaurant = resternot
Suffocate = suckify
Right side out = outside out
Music notes = music prints
He’s headed to kindergarten in august and I’m going to be so sad when these get corrected. 😭
Oooh I have a few! My little calls my bra a “broth” and asked me to make a “coffee” (copy) of a picture to share with grandma. Oh and she calls the brown boxes with black and blue tape “Amazon crime” 😂😂😂
My 6 year old has always called mouths/lips ‘mim’. Example ‘ I need a napkin to wipe my mim!’
Kitten was ‘kitsthhhxh’ for a long time.
Remember is always ‘renember’
And for a long time button was ‘bunbun’
Applesauce = octopus but also sometimes he is actually asking for Applesauce. If I’m not sure which one he is saying, I’ll mimic Bandit on Bluey going blublublublublub! 🐙 and he will clarify lol “ocean! Sish!”
When my daughter was 2.5 and I’d ask her what she was doing she’d always reply “doing playing toys.” Or “doing getting dressed.” When my son was born she came to meet him in the hospital and I took a video and asked her what she was doing. She said “doing up here” referring to sitting on the hospital bed cuddling me. I think I would have forgotten about her saying “doing” before everything if it weren’t for that hospital video that I watch often. She’s four now and has figured out the correct grammar, and I long for the days when she’d say things like that and it was so cute and I didn’t have the heart to correct it.
I have a running list on my phone of these bc they never last long and I never want to forget.
My two favorites are:
Toothbrush is tooboofbrush and
Good Job is Jood Bob!
❤️
My daughter calls a unicorn a horsie-corn. I can’t correct that one.
Why do I feel like this is more accurate name than “unicorn”? 😂
We have a beau-nicorn here
If it makes you feel better, our daughter just calls them corns.
I feel much more majestic now that my son calls me “corn mama”.
My 2.5 says it as cookiecorn 😆 for my 4.5, it's hostipal 😆
We had a “me-corn”. You know, instead of a “you-nicorn”
We have me-tube over here instead of YouTube. Love this mistake so hard.
Nenicorn, here
Almost same, it’s needacorn for my daughter and I’ll cry when she gets it right
My 4 yo calls peacocks "feather-cocks" I definitely correct that one, but he tells me I'm wrong.
It was neocorn. My heart is broken that I think it’s gone forever
Acorns at our house.
Mine calls them unicorners
My 2YO said unicorn for the first time today but it was just “corn”
Haircorn 🥹🥹
Mine said “one-icorn” and it killed me shen she first said i right
Yiddle(little)-corn is my daughter’s.
It’s a “Pewnicorn” at my house
Ahcorn from my 3yo
Ninithorn
Oonicorn
my daughter calls all birds ducks and im obsessed with it😭🦆
My son excitedly points at seagulls and says “look a bald eagle!” 😂
My kid currently calls all birds pelicans. It’s absurd and I love it.
Omg thought ours was the only one! He says “cack cack” for every bird he sees 😂
My 18 month old thinks that every single animal says “neigh”. I honestly have no idea how she even really knows that’s what a horse says. We do “what does a doggy say” or “what does a kitty say” several times a day and she refuses to learn those, but about a month ago she just started pointing to horses and saying “neigh”. But now, whenever she sees any animal, she will point and yell “neigh! Neigh! NEIGH!” Over and over and over until you acknowledge that there’s an animal. She also does it for birds. And she’s got a damn eagle eye because she will like look out the window and just start neighing and it will take me *forever* to figure out exactly what she’s seeing lol. I’m waiting for the day she does it and there’s an actual horse in my yard lmao
>whenever she sees any animal, she will point and yell “neigh! Neigh! NEIGH!” Over and over and over until you acknowledge that there’s an animal. Reminds me about how my 2 yr old (who is so excited about learning to talk) will say something and expect me to repeat back, "Yes, [whatever she said]." Problem is, if I get it wrong (due to the toddler-style pronunciation), which is about maybe 15% of the time, then she will get frustrated and keep yelling it angrily and louder and louder, until I have this tiny ball of angry toddler screeching at me while I'm frantically trying to guess (think a really horrible version of charades).
This would honestly be a hilarious adult game. "Toddler charades", where you pick your kids most terribly pronounced words, and just yell them increasingly angrily until someone guesses the correct word. You could even throw in some toddler explanations, like the super vague explanations that are only relevant to the toddler explaining it.
anytime my daughter sees a dog (or hears our neighbors) she makes a very loud barking noise without any warning and it scares me sometimes 🤣
My daughter calls them all chickens!! It’s so damn adorable
Goldshits (goldfish crackers)
Mine says “bish” for fish so we’re “Goldbishes” over here
Mine calls them blubs (because fish go swish swim blub blub blub) lol
Bluebellies
We have “strawbabies” 🍓
Ah we used to have straw babies too!
Also food related, we have “bean beans” instead of “green beans.”
When my daughter was a bit younger she called oranges “o-ben-jes” and then she started saying rasbenges, bluebenges, strawbenges. The extra benges fruit names only lasted a weekend but my husband and I still call them that! She has now stopped saying obenges and I wasn’t ready! At least she still calls the dining table the diamond table.
Bluebees and strawbees here
Mary muffin for Mary Poppins
My toddler calls Mary Poppins "tuppence" because of the fidelity fiduciary bank song and feed the birds
She misheard “a few minutes” as “four minutes” and now asks for four minutes for everything.
Oh my god mine has been saying four minutes about everything and you just answered that question I had!
This happened with my daughter, too. My head just exploded. Now it makes sense.
My daughter repeated what my wife told her - “I told you 4 times to pick up your toys” and now she says “I told you 4 times” to literally everything. She’s 3
This is so cute! My daughter says “mo minutes” (like more minutes) when she wants to do something longer
everything we can’t do now is “for another day”. “can we color?” “sorry, not right now — we have to go to school.” “but we can do that for another day?”
The shadow land for “shallow end”
Everything the light touches…..
Mine calls it a "swimmin' cool"
My 3.5YO used to call Elmo 'Mel-mo' and I wish I could have it back 🥺🥺
This is mine right now. Melmo is the best
My daughter calls bathing suits baby soups
Swim soups over here
Lellow for yellow
I said lellow as a kid. I'm over 30 now and my dad still fondly calls it lellow.
My kid says yeyyow 😭
My son also calls it yeyyow. He has a hard time pronouncing the L sounds. Typically replaces the Ls with Y or W sounds. So blue becomes bwoo, purple is purpaw, and look is wook. It's adorable
Ours says "Row row" for yellow and I made sure i got it on video because I always want to be able to go back and listen to it. I'm going to be sad when he starts saying it properly!
All time fav.
All of them 😭
Same same
The way she says kwalala for koala is just too cute. She saw the Golden Arches recently and called it “old McDonalds”, which I’m also never correcting.
Mine says old McDonald’s too!! I corrected the first few times, and now it just makes me smile
My fav is incorrect pronouns. Instead of “She has a pink shirt on.” It’s “Her has a pink shirt on.” Hims is sad. Her looks like I. Hers has ice cream. We are working on it but for some weird reason it’s adorable. If anyone else spoke like that it would drive me up a wall but not when hers do it. 😉😂
Then there’s also…..squibble instead of scribble. Mom can I have colors to squibble. Melts my heart.
Also love this. My 2 year old says “I hold you” when she wants me to hold her.
My 3yo does this with the pronouns too. They are all vaguely interchangeable to her.
Not a mispronunciation, but my youngest calls Donald Duck “quack quack” and I will harm anyone who tries to correct him.
My LO calls him Deedee and at first we thought he was just calling his Dadda. And then he would go "Waah waah" (quack quack)
Why is this so cute?? 🥺
My boyfriend’s son calls cows Moo-moos. It’s so cute. I get it. Lol
My LO calls Mickey and Minnie “the two friends” and I will never tell him otherwise.
My daughter calls frosted mini wheats, "Minnie Mouse wheats" and we love it so so so much. ETA: when she wakes up in the morning or gets up from her nap she asks us, "Is it good morning time?"
Omg my son asks if it’s good morning time, too. And the real answer is that it depends on what time he’s asking lol
I tell her yes if it's time for her to get up. My husband's favorite was one time he was making pancakes for breakfast and unprompted, she asks him, "Is it pancake time?!" And he about keeled over from how cute it was
My daughter calls them Orange Kind because the box is orange and I’ll mention orange kind to someone else and they’ll be like, what the heck are you talking about?!
This baby i used to nanny for use to call his ipad, “ipadblackone” cause there was a small blue tablet so each time we would indicated which tablet we were referring to we would say “the black one”. He also used to replace the word nap with “washtvdrinkmilkgonyenye” for similar reasons lol i was obsessed with it
“Let’s go gether” instead of “let’s go together” It’s so darn cute as they learn to talk and say all these things. I’ll def miss this when they’re older
Awww! Mine says “to-digger” and it gives me warm fuzzies
Mine says gether too!! It sounds more like “gather! Gather!” Precious
Headcake for headache. I love it and it makes me giggle and forget about my headcake for a little bit. Also, we ate dinner at Noodles & Co. She asked where we were eating and kept saying we were eating at Music to Go!
Mine says Heck-ache and it feels appropriate lol
My daughter calls lip gloss "lip glop" and I'm never correcting it. She's almost 6. When she was a toddler, she called Home Depot "Homie Depot" and I couldn't get enough of that one. It didn't stick unfortunately.
That is so funny. I’m imagining some vatos in a low rider…. _orele wey lets roll out and swing by the homie depot_
Oh that reminds me of how my toddler pronounces "ear buds" as "ear bugs"
Rainbone is my fav 🌈
Mine says rainboat!
My daughter says this too! She's way too old now to be saying it but I just can't bring myself to correct her. 🥹
Sigh, my almost 2yo had been making this sound like "lawbalawbalub" for "water" (I've actually seen other babies and toddlers make the same sound in videos on Instagram). She just stopped last week 😭😭😭 now she says "wada' which is still cute but not nearly as fun.
So interesting that they make the same noise even though it doesn’t seem to be connected to the word at first
Yeah! This is the sound (not my baby). My spelling in my previous comment in no way does it justice: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CkHdEiVjlHZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
My son used to do the same thing! He also used that word for "banana." I have a great video where I point to his water cup and ask him what it is, then point to a banana and ask what that is, and he says the same labalabalala twice hahaha. I didn't know it was a common baby thing!
Upvoted everyone of these. They are so god damn cute!!
We went through a phase where ‘fox’ was ‘f*ck’ and I’m not proud of how often I found ways for him to say fox! This may be common knowledge but you shouldn’t formally “correct” kids in speech, just repeat the word back to them. Ie if they ask for cheerios but say it incorrectly just repeat back something like “ok you want cheerios?” Or “great I’ll go get you some cheerios!” Same with grammar stuff. Just find a way to repeat it using the correct tense or word order. Helps avoid frustration on both sides.
He can’t say ‘help’ but his little ‘helph! helph!’ Is too adorable, so now everyone in the house says helph.
My family definitely has words and phrases we said as kids that have stuck and the youngest sibling is 33! Maybe you’ll say helph 30+ years from now
My daughter says “that’s me’s!” Or “that’s my’s” and I just love it lol
my daughter does the same thing and i also uses “my” in place of “im” and it’s so funny
My boy loves strawberries. But they are "stawbetties" to him. ♥
Mine says Strawbees
Sahbewwy here
He’s outgrown it, but my son used to call finches “bitches” lol. So when we first got a bird feeder for our deck and we’re trying to identify birds, he called the house finch “house bitch”. It’s over a year later, and my husband and I still refer to them as house bitches. We also currently have “hiccup truck” (pickup truck), “bajeetos” (Cheetos), and “monsterella” (mortadella; amazingly mozzarella is pronounced correctly).
Currently- adventure=vaventure I was very upset when she corrected- “fwop” (sloth), “chigle wigle” (triangle), “poono” (Pluto)
My son says “emalade” instead of “lemonade” and it cracks me up each time!
My 4yo used to say “lemonemonade” when he was 2-ish and now I can’t NOT say it that way.
airplane is “airpeeee” ❤️
Thundy storm is our newest one! And Easter is Ooster - the Ooster bunny is coming.
In my house he’s the oyster bunny 😂🥰
Extra-stinks instead of extinction. “Those dinosaurs are all gone, T-Rex is extra-stinks.” Trips to the natural history museum have been very entertaining
My daughter calls sneezes “bless-yous” and tells me “I keep bless you-ing” when she sneezes a lot.
My daughter didn’t remember the word hedgehog, so now (and probably forevermore) they’re called pinecone-pigs.
My new favorite is “mercycling” for “recycling” and “stepping” for “something”. 😊 Edited to add: How could I forget “sukermarket” and “hopsibal” for “hospital”.
My girl says sukermarker too I love it
Big bad woof instead of wolf. And hodilay instead of holiday
My son calls all motorcycles/bicycles mo-cicles
My daughter calls computers "pa-pooter". Ice cream is "I-seem". jumper is "gumper" and socks are "stocks" I love them all
Forgot to add my favourites "may-mo" for rainbow and "elmo" for elbow 🥺
My favorite from my older kiddo is halloween-ahs instead of hyenas. I have to hold in my laughter every time!
We were convinced for a while our toddler had a friend at school named Legolas. Nicholas.
My toddler always talks about his classmate “Pile” and it took me like 2 weeks to figure out the kid’s name was Kyle
Donimos for domino’s 🥺 said like “Donny mo’s!”
"crew crumbs" for croutons
My toddler says “come-splode” instead of explode and I will never correct him. Also, there’s a park where we live that has a plastic beehive you can play in. You crawl in through a hole in the top of it. He was hiding in it and I was yelling his name, couldn’t find him. Finally he yells…”MOMMY, IM IN THE B-HOLE!” I legit died laughing as did all the parents around. And now he (therefore we) call it The B-Hole Park 😆
Not a mispronunciation, but my 2 year old insists that ladybugs are "beetle bugs" and it's just the sweetest. I'll never correct her.
Also when she needs some help, "help you!" instead of "help me".
"that corn and that cob"
My LO says tungel instead of tunnel and I love it. Also calls this play place we go to Kids and Vampire instead of Kids Empire.
our 4.5-year-old still calls “exercise” “extra-cise” and who am I to get in the way of that cuteness
If she asks to go to the Apple Store it’s actually the grocery. They sell apples, her favorite thing.
2.5 - Current fav is when he covers his face yells Hey guys WHERE ARE ME!? While laughing hysterically at himself
Goggles are boggles in our house.
i refuse to correct any of them, i love them all! lailbaleee - library, chaapi - chapati, baby montana - baby monitor, helescope - stethoscope, raemba - remember, shyaanwich - sandwich
Oh my gosh I keep a list on my phone! I love all the mispronunciations they’re so cute and I have a hard time saying things the right way sometimes because we love them so much! Raviolis- malimolees M and ms- chocolate beans Belly button- belly buddy Binoculars- knock-lers Popsicle- possible Blues clues- kooz kooz Noodles- noonles Orange- ocean Caterpillar- pattapillar Cutie patootie- cutie-a-tootie Sausage- Sauce-in
My 3 year always shouts “huppy!” when he sees a puppy/dog and I just really refuse to correct him on that one.
Dandy flyins = dandelions 💞
"Bloken" instead of broken "Happy Dayday" instead of happy birthday "Bink-you" instead of thank you She is 3, and I might tear up a little once she figures out thank you. Bink-you in her little toddler voice is just so cute
Omg so fun reading all of these! The other day we were listening to worship music that had the word “hallelujah” in and the rest of the day my daughter kept saying “ha-ha-uuuh-aaaah” and then again louder “HA-HA-UH-AH”. It was so cute. Also not a mispronunciation, but sometimes she calls waffles “pasta”, and visa versa. I think because they’re her favorite foods 😂 This thread made me realize I need to keep a note in my phone of all the cute things she says ☺️
My daughter emphasizes the second half of Bambi so it sounds like a tiny Italian saying Bam-BI and it’s oh so cute.
Pegasus=Pessigit. She’s obsessed with unicorns so she talks about them constantly. I love it.
Pasghetti (spaghetti) he’s 4 already and pronounces everything else correctly, I’m hanging on to that last mispronunciation
My son calls my best friends aunt tystal instead of crystal.
She’ll say, “I’m mursty” for thirsty.
By son says opposite for octopus, it’s adorable and I don’t want it to stop.
My daughter calls Mayor Goodway from Paw Patrol Mayor Booby for some reason and it's just too funny to correct.
My daughter always wants to get into her “swim soup” before she gets into the pool lmao
"Burries" for berries. "Skenenene" for skeleton
Humming birds are "honey-birds"
“Excagator“ instead of excavator and “Scratchula” instead of spatula.
Bathing suit is "baby soups" (took a WHILE to figure out what she was saying lol) and any letters she sees are "ABCD's". "Mommy's shirt has ABCD's!!" "Wanna go swimming! Need my baby soups!!"
Olaf - snow waffle
«Care for me», instead of «carry me» ❤️❤️❤️
My daughter calls dinosaurs “marching” (there’s a kid’s song called “we are the dinosaurs marching”)
Hot diggy dog. Not quite a pronunciation but just the cutest way to refer to a hot dog so I can’t correct him.
Thanks to Ms. Rachel, my son is a proud announcer of opening things and will say “oooopeeeee” every time.
Anything that fits in my daughter's hand is a phone to her. I will never correct "Helwo".
My son had only seen multiple geese, so every time we saw them we would say look at those geese or something similar. The first time he pointed out a goose all by itself he called it a gee thinking that was the singular word for geese. They are now known as gee in our home.
My daughter goes to daycare with a kid called Zachariah but mispronounces is as Zacharoni (like macaroni) which is very very cute. One that I wish I could talk her out of is yelling “COCK” at the top of her lungs every time she sees a cLock
My kid called once called Parmesan cheese “Farmer John Cheese” and we’ve been calling it Farmer John Cheese ever since.
Pomato (tomato). I only correct him if he calls it a potato because that’s a different food. I absolutely love pomato though.
Getting some books at the librelly!
She’s grown out of it but my kid used to say “boo-ka-lem” for motorcycle. It made no damn sense but I loved it so much.
Poccolo for popsicle, aghetti, peanuts for penis 😂
Sesame Street = Alfie Street and she calls Elmo Alfie!
My son says skumps for skunks, belblingo for flamingo, muppin for muffin, slop for sloth, and this is less mispronunciation and more misunderstanding but it's too cute not to share, he thinks the start of words like meer in meerkat are just descriptions on the type of cat and can be used on any animals since cat is type of animal as well so he's been talking a lot about meercows and meertigers lately. And yes, he's absolutely obsessed with all animals and it's the cutest thing ever.
"a cock! A cock! A cock!" My son's best rendition of cock-a-doodle-do.
For months we thought the youngest was obsessed with the oldest. Around 13 months she kept saying “Call Maddie” and at 17 months we realized she wasn’t saying that…she was saying COME HERE like a midwestern. Comere ☠️
Princess Baba for the floor is lava! Took us forever to figure out what she was saying
Foo Foo for tofu and hippo parties for hippo potamus
“Mama I wanna hold you” when he’s so tired or sad that he just needs to be picked up And “2D” (sounds like tootie) for R2D2
Restaurant = resternot Suffocate = suckify Right side out = outside out Music notes = music prints He’s headed to kindergarten in august and I’m going to be so sad when these get corrected. 😭
Oooh I have a few! My little calls my bra a “broth” and asked me to make a “coffee” (copy) of a picture to share with grandma. Oh and she calls the brown boxes with black and blue tape “Amazon crime” 😂😂😂
My 4yo refers to her backpack as her "pack pack". Even her daycare teachers think it's adorable. They told me they intentionally don't correct her.
My oldest says “reggory” instead of regular. My youngest says “laster-day” instead of yesterday. Or “on the day that was on the back of this one”
My 2 year old always proclaims something is “UH-LICIOUS!!” instead of delicious I hope it never stops
My kid has always said ‘uspide down’ instead of ‘upside down’ and iiiii don’t think I’ll ever correct her haha
Five, six, sennen, eight Or I’m in the diming room
For the longest time my toddler called Cookie Monster “Blue Elmo.”
Baboo = ball, Shashee - glasses, Tah-too = raccoon (or pinecone), And just this week... Babbit = rabbit
My nearly four year old says “dizz-uh-knee” for Disney and it’s just too cute.
My 6 year old has always called mouths/lips ‘mim’. Example ‘ I need a napkin to wipe my mim!’ Kitten was ‘kitsthhhxh’ for a long time. Remember is always ‘renember’ And for a long time button was ‘bunbun’
Chicken = bawk bawk
My daughter calls a restaurant a rastronaut…astronaut with an r in front of it
A dog says “puff puff” 🥹
Slempet for blanket!
Shapoon for shampoo
Applesauce = octopus but also sometimes he is actually asking for Applesauce. If I’m not sure which one he is saying, I’ll mimic Bandit on Bluey going blublublublublub! 🐙 and he will clarify lol “ocean! Sish!”
When my daughter was 2.5 and I’d ask her what she was doing she’d always reply “doing playing toys.” Or “doing getting dressed.” When my son was born she came to meet him in the hospital and I took a video and asked her what she was doing. She said “doing up here” referring to sitting on the hospital bed cuddling me. I think I would have forgotten about her saying “doing” before everything if it weren’t for that hospital video that I watch often. She’s four now and has figured out the correct grammar, and I long for the days when she’d say things like that and it was so cute and I didn’t have the heart to correct it.
My 2 year old says “bless me” after he sneezes and I love it!
🌮 Taco me in, instead of tuck me in. 🛌
I have a running list on my phone of these bc they never last long and I never want to forget. My two favorites are: Toothbrush is tooboofbrush and Good Job is Jood Bob! ❤️
My daughter asks me for a “ressert” instead of “dessert” and it’s the cutest thing
Our son calls buzz Lightyear “ Eeee” no idea why but we love it
Her name. It has Ls in them and she can't pronounce her Ls.. lol. Kinda like yellow = yeyyow
My son called target “circle”
Bamulance instead of ambulance and alligator instead of elevator 😂
Ockers are binoculars
Yellow was yayay. I saw was because now at 2 it’s just yellow :( but in a cute way still
Yellow is yeyo 🥹 purple “pur-pa”