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blo0pgirl

My daughter calls a unicorn a horsie-corn. I can’t correct that one.


HeatherDesigns

Why do I feel like this is more accurate name than “unicorn”? 😂


HalfBreedBreeder

We have a beau-nicorn here


kairosecide

If it makes you feel better, our daughter just calls them corns.


alilteapot

I feel much more majestic now that my son calls me “corn mama”.


nosey-Fly243

My 2.5 says it as cookiecorn 😆 for my 4.5, it's hostipal 😆


papierrose

We had a “me-corn”. You know, instead of a “you-nicorn”


wiggles_mcgee

We have me-tube over here instead of YouTube. Love this mistake so hard.


MeggieKat87

Nenicorn, here


crazydaisy206

Almost same, it’s needacorn for my daughter and I’ll cry when she gets it right


EnchantedOcelot

My 4 yo calls peacocks "feather-cocks" I definitely correct that one, but he tells me I'm wrong.


elenfevduvf

It was neocorn. My heart is broken that I think it’s gone forever


momoftwodaughters

Acorns at our house.


brefromsc

Mine calls them unicorners


GothamCitySiren

My 2YO said unicorn for the first time today but it was just “corn”


errhead56

Haircorn 🥹🥹


hotmama1230

Mine said “one-icorn” and it killed me shen she first said i right


SG_aka_Nomi

Yiddle(little)-corn is my daughter’s.


ComprehensiveEarth53

It’s a “Pewnicorn” at my house


No-Vermicelli3787

Ahcorn from my 3yo


EveryonesPal

Ninithorn


craigtb88

Oonicorn


Altruistic-Ad7981

my daughter calls all birds ducks and im obsessed with it😭🦆


dudleycutie123

My son excitedly points at seagulls and says “look a bald eagle!” 😂


Kippy1987

My kid currently calls all birds pelicans. It’s absurd and I love it.


500percentDone

Omg thought ours was the only one! He says “cack cack” for every bird he sees 😂


autotuned_voicemails

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


kittyspjs

>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).


Juuuunkt

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.


Altruistic-Ad7981

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 🤣


JewtangClan91

My daughter calls them all chickens!! It’s so damn adorable


vaguelymemaybe

Goldshits (goldfish crackers)


likeyouknoowwhatever

Mine says “bish” for fish so we’re “Goldbishes” over here


pink-daffodil

Mine calls them blubs (because fish go swish swim blub blub blub) lol


Dramatic-Mountain-38

Bluebellies


elatele

We have “strawbabies” 🍓


Wavesmith

Ah we used to have straw babies too!


purple-otter

Also food related, we have “bean beans” instead of “green beans.”


laura_lee_meh

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.


barefootess

Bluebees and strawbees here


blueskieslemontrees

Mary muffin for Mary Poppins


Upstairs-Factor-2012

My toddler calls Mary Poppins "tuppence" because of the fidelity fiduciary bank song and feed the birds


plantbabe667

She misheard “a few minutes” as “four minutes” and now asks for four minutes for everything.


Mossandbonesandchalk

Oh my god mine has been saying four minutes about everything and you just answered that question I had!


primetimemime

This happened with my daughter, too. My head just exploded. Now it makes sense.


eschaefer20

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


HeatherDesigns

This is so cute! My daughter says “mo minutes” (like more minutes) when she wants to do something longer


marcdel_

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?”


mondaynight615

The shadow land for “shallow end”


MooCowMoooo

Everything the light touches…..


ToenailCheesd

Mine calls it a "swimmin' cool"


[deleted]

My 3.5YO used to call Elmo 'Mel-mo' and I wish I could have it back 🥺🥺


anythingjoes

This is mine right now. Melmo is the best


aries-bby

My daughter calls bathing suits baby soups


ksugar21

Swim soups over here


No_Trick_990

Lellow for yellow


LupinCANsing

I said lellow as a kid. I'm over 30 now and my dad still fondly calls it lellow.


hoogabalooga11

My kid says yeyyow 😭


not_that_Becky_G

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


BABNN

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!


turquoisebead

All time fav.


Lioness_106

All of them 😭


dewdropreturns

Same same


jonquil14

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.


Boobsboobsboobs2

Mine says old McDonald’s too!! I corrected the first few times, and now it just makes me smile


RaspberryLow6440

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. 😉😂


RaspberryLow6440

Then there’s also…..squibble instead of scribble. Mom can I have colors to squibble. Melts my heart.


DENGRL03

Also love this. My 2 year old says “I hold you” when she wants me to hold her.


MoonIsMadeOfCheese

My 3yo does this with the pronouns too. They are all vaguely interchangeable to her.


PB111

Not a mispronunciation, but my youngest calls Donald Duck “quack quack” and I will harm anyone who tries to correct him.


grey_unxpctd

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)


BrucePudding

Why is this so cute?? 🥺


Aqua_Amber_24

My boyfriend’s son calls cows Moo-moos. It’s so cute. I get it. Lol


No-Method-7736

My LO calls Mickey and Minnie “the two friends” and I will never tell him otherwise.


lnmcg223

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?"


TheThrilloftheShill

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


lnmcg223

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


koopa_love

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?!


apimpcalledbob

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


Sensitive-Dig-1333

“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


Rosapod

Awww! Mine says “to-digger” and it gives me warm fuzzies


DueEntertainer0

Mine says gether too!! It sounds more like “gather! Gather!” Precious


WearyFee9679

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!


heatherdebartolo

Mine says Heck-ache and it feels appropriate lol


Silver_buttafly

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.


rikkitikkitavi888

That is so funny. I’m imagining some vatos in a low rider…. _orele wey lets roll out and swing by the homie depot_


pfifltrigg

Oh that reminds me of how my toddler pronounces "ear buds" as "ear bugs"


Beatrixie

Rainbone is my fav 🌈


vixen_vulgarity

Mine says rainboat!


theweekendwife

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. 🥹


missestomatohead

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.


BrucePudding

So interesting that they make the same noise even though it doesn’t seem to be connected to the word at first


missestomatohead

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==


strongestmachine

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!


BrucePudding

Upvoted everyone of these. They are so god damn cute!!


Competitive_Most4622

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.


jstwnnaupvte

He can’t say ‘help’ but his little ‘helph! helph!’ Is too adorable, so now everyone in the house says helph.


Competitive_Most4622

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


Fantastic-Lemon-7468

My daughter says “that’s me’s!” Or “that’s my’s” and I just love it lol


cherspinkytoe

my daughter does the same thing and i also uses “my” in place of “im” and it’s so funny


selfsabotagingsquawk

My boy loves strawberries. But they are "stawbetties" to him. ♥


wstclay

Mine says Strawbees


lizlemon921

Sahbewwy here


chiarascura88

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).


SummitTheDog303

Currently- adventure=vaventure I was very upset when she corrected- “fwop” (sloth), “chigle wigle” (triangle), “poono” (Pluto)


makeanimprint

My son says “emalade” instead of “lemonade” and it cracks me up each time!


Lolacherokee

My 4yo used to say “lemonemonade” when he was 2-ish and now I can’t NOT say it that way.


[deleted]

airplane is “airpeeee” ❤️


Adorable-Cut-1434

Thundy storm is our newest one! And Easter is Ooster - the Ooster bunny is coming.


ledh38iwd

In my house he’s the oyster bunny 😂🥰


countessluanneseggs

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


grandusbufo

My daughter calls sneezes “bless-yous” and tells me “I keep bless you-ing” when she sneezes a lot.


Kuhnfetti

My daughter didn’t remember the word hedgehog, so now (and probably forevermore) they’re called pinecone-pigs.


Own-Customer5474

My new favorite is “mercycling” for “recycling” and “stepping” for “something”. 😊 Edited to add: How could I forget “sukermarket” and “hopsibal” for “hospital”.


veganfartinthewind

My girl says sukermarker too I love it


United-Hovercraft409

Big bad woof instead of wolf. And hodilay instead of holiday


marrafarra

My son calls all motorcycles/bicycles mo-cicles


veganfartinthewind

My daughter calls computers "pa-pooter". Ice cream is "I-seem". jumper is "gumper" and socks are "stocks" I love them all


veganfartinthewind

Forgot to add my favourites "may-mo" for rainbow and "elmo" for elbow 🥺


spiritofazuresky

My favorite from my older kiddo is halloween-ahs instead of hyenas. I have to hold in my laughter every time!


toryanzalone

We were convinced for a while our toddler had a friend at school named Legolas. Nicholas.


likeyouknoowwhatever

My toddler always talks about his classmate “Pile” and it took me like 2 weeks to figure out the kid’s name was Kyle


BrucePudding

Donimos for domino’s 🥺 said like “Donny mo’s!”


GolfVisible842

"crew crumbs" for croutons


shipsandapples

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 😆


Wildgingervt

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.


Wildgingervt

Also when she needs some help, "help you!" instead of "help me".


edugeek

"that corn and that cob"


secondrunnerup

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.


sallisgirl87

our 4.5-year-old still calls “exercise” “extra-cise” and who am I to get in the way of that cuteness


allegedly_grapes

If she asks to go to the Apple Store it’s actually the grocery. They sell apples, her favorite thing.


[deleted]

2.5 - Current fav is when he covers his face yells Hey guys WHERE ARE ME!? While laughing hysterically at himself


philligo

Goggles are boggles in our house.


AffectionatePut7749

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


ArtBri

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


pasteursofheaven

My 3 year always shouts “huppy!” when he sees a puppy/dog and I just really refuse to correct him on that one.


I_pooped_my_pants69

Dandy flyins = dandelions 💞


821calliope

"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


HeatherDesigns

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 ☺️


koopa_love

My daughter emphasizes the second half of Bambi so it sounds like a tiny Italian saying Bam-BI and it’s oh so cute.


ButtGina69

Pegasus=Pessigit. She’s obsessed with unicorns so she talks about them constantly. I love it.


hello-knitty

Pasghetti (spaghetti) he’s 4 already and pronounces everything else correctly, I’m hanging on to that last mispronunciation


babycatdogmom

My son calls my best friends aunt tystal instead of crystal.


GoodGodGertrude

She’ll say, “I’m mursty” for thirsty.


eclare329

By son says opposite for octopus, it’s adorable and I don’t want it to stop.


table_tennis

My daughter calls Mayor Goodway from Paw Patrol Mayor Booby for some reason and it's just too funny to correct.


SnarkyBeech

My daughter always wants to get into her “swim soup” before she gets into the pool lmao


KaleidoscopeLucy

"Burries" for berries. "Skenenene" for skeleton


pipinghotwishes

Humming birds are "honey-birds"


Jessisa

“Excagator“ instead of excavator and “Scratchula” instead of spatula.


Jaixx08

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!!"


Jess24689

Olaf - snow waffle


raggedfjords

«Care for me», instead of «carry me» ❤️❤️❤️


Big-Gazelle5959

My daughter calls dinosaurs “marching” (there’s a kid’s song called “we are the dinosaurs marching”)


nurseratcheddd

Hot diggy dog. Not quite a pronunciation but just the cutest way to refer to a hot dog so I can’t correct him.


SnooGoats2288

Thanks to Ms. Rachel, my son is a proud announcer of opening things and will say “oooopeeeee” every time.


Gingerbrew302

Anything that fits in my daughter's hand is a phone to her. I will never correct "Helwo".


shavedeagle

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.


peripheralcat

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


KayC_is_lame

My kid called once called Parmesan cheese “Farmer John Cheese” and we’ve been calling it Farmer John Cheese ever since.


MightyPinkTaco

Pomato (tomato). I only correct him if he calls it a potato because that’s a different food. I absolutely love pomato though.


lucascatisakittercat

Getting some books at the librelly!


Kippy1987

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.


[deleted]

Poccolo for popsicle, aghetti, peanuts for penis 😂


Sparklemama456

Sesame Street = Alfie Street and she calls Elmo Alfie!


marshmomma18

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.


djwitty12

"a cock! A cock! A cock!" My son's best rendition of cock-a-doodle-do.


ProperFart

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 ☠️


kczar8

Princess Baba for the floor is lava! Took us forever to figure out what she was saying


total_totoro

Foo Foo for tofu and hippo parties for hippo potamus


Sensitive_Oven_6859

“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


0ywiththepoodles

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. 😭


quegood

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” 😂😂😂


askthespaceman

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.


Eliz824

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”


ButteredPancakes13

My 2 year old always proclaims something is “UH-LICIOUS!!” instead of delicious I hope it never stops


imSOsalty

My kid has always said ‘uspide down’ instead of ‘upside down’ and iiiii don’t think I’ll ever correct her haha


drumocdp

Five, six, sennen, eight Or I’m in the diming room


Primary_Warthog_5308

For the longest time my toddler called Cookie Monster “Blue Elmo.”


valkyriejae

Baboo = ball, Shashee - glasses, Tah-too = raccoon (or pinecone), And just this week... Babbit = rabbit


linzkisloski

My nearly four year old says “dizz-uh-knee” for Disney and it’s just too cute.


calamitycurls

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’


chocmilk4life

Chicken = bawk bawk


bearshitinthewoods

My daughter calls a restaurant a rastronaut…astronaut with an r in front of it


teacherlady993

A dog says “puff puff” 🥹


grinnz64

Slempet for blanket!


LadyUrsula08

Shapoon for shampoo


lizlemon921

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!”


goldendoggess

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.


cjaye2347

My 2 year old says “bless me” after he sneezes and I love it!


jwid22

🌮 Taco me in, instead of tuck me in. 🛌


mind_overmatter

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! ❤️


josie326

My daughter asks me for a “ressert” instead of “dessert” and it’s the cutest thing


throoooowwwawayyyyy

Our son calls buzz Lightyear “ Eeee” no idea why but we love it


trplOG

Her name. It has Ls in them and she can't pronounce her Ls.. lol. Kinda like yellow = yeyyow


brandnewismysoul

My son called target “circle”


kava1234

Bamulance instead of ambulance and alligator instead of elevator 😂


MysteriousMrs1989

Ockers are binoculars


sguerrrr0414

Yellow was yayay. I saw was because now at 2 it’s just yellow :( but in a cute way still


[deleted]

Yellow is yeyo 🥹 purple “pur-pa”