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Indinana Mon 04-Apr-16 10:15:59

Following on from the "What do you call things" thread, where someone has an artillery room because that's what her daughter called their utility room when young.
This prompted me to think of some of our two children's amusing misheard or misremembered words, or simply mispronounced words when they were still at the 'learning to talk' stage. Such as:

Consequential (continental) quilt
Anti-hypnotist (antihistamine) cream
Gitters (slippers)
Pitters (knickers)
Tramibewer (television confused)
Ow-bryes (eyebrows)
Punched (poached) egg

I'm sure there were many, many more, which I wish I'd recorded somewhere. How about you? Any funny misheard, misremembered or made up words from your children?

shysal Mon 04-Apr-16 10:30:32

I remember gitgits for biscuits and mambeam for ice cream, as well as the commonly heard par cark, hospicle and chish and fips.
From my MIL, ectastretna for hysterectomy, and FIL limerine and Doberman for limousine and Dormobile.. He used to work in the Blenheim Palace car park after retirement, I expect he raised a few smiles!

Auntieflo Mon 04-Apr-16 11:20:06

Evacuated milk,and stawbellyberries

kittylester Mon 04-Apr-16 11:25:28

I mentioned ututity room on the same thread but we also had hedgehoggers (hitchhikers), skywipers (skyscrapers) voocher (voucher - still used today!) and badgers, what the jaywalking drunk called the man who almost knock him over.grin

Teetime Mon 04-Apr-16 11:33:56

Its was my DD2 who called it the artillery room but she was 39 at the time!

Anyway GS2 (son of DD2) is the most recent child I can remember and his thing was always wanting to go on the compeputer.

My father a dear old cockney was after getting a cerstificit from the quack, taking perrycitimol for a headache and wearing his come-nearer-scopes for reading. Bless his old heart. smile

Greyduster Mon 04-Apr-16 11:37:49

I remember talking to a friend whose DH had just ordered a new car. I asked what it was - "I think it's one of those Chisellers (Chryslers)", she said. It has stuck with me ever since - can't think of them as anything else.

ninathenana Mon 04-Apr-16 11:39:51

Cargigan cardigan
Gatox gateaux
Boganase bolognaise
Ranran grandad
Gubs gloves
My dad always deliberately said flutterby instead of butterfly. I think that's very appropriate

Luckygirl Mon 04-Apr-16 11:42:01

Slod - past tense of slide. as in "It slod off."!

Stansgran Mon 04-Apr-16 11:42:38

Dgs3 called salami slimy as in " this slimy is delicious". It will be delicious slimy for ever for us

harrigran Mon 04-Apr-16 11:55:01

Excited GD looking at fresh snow in the garden " quick, come and see the pussy pootfrints in the garden ".

Daisyanswerdo Mon 04-Apr-16 11:57:42

vicious chips (fish and)
basghetti
shoddidges
hostipal
and - more strange - orange plastic ride-on tractor was 'gay-guck'.

ginny Mon 04-Apr-16 12:02:53

Small Yorkshire puds are always called pork pies in our family .
Some facts are an elephant (irrelevant). Cardiglican (cardigan). We never overtake cases, we take over them. I 'm sure there are more that will come to mind.

joannapiano Mon 04-Apr-16 12:27:58

GD2 used to love pointing out the hirrels in the park.
Twelve years later, guess what we still call them ? !!

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 04-Apr-16 12:29:45

DD had popped down to the Co-op for some mint sauce for Sunday dinner, when I realised I was out of cornflour. I said to ten year old GS, "catch your mum up and tell her to get some cornflour for the gravy". GS goes puffing and panting into the shop. "Granny said, get some cauliflower. For the gravy". Luckily mum worked out what was needed.

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 04-Apr-16 12:31:09

For a long time we parked in 'par carks'!

glassortwo Mon 04-Apr-16 12:49:37

Cockledeer - crocodile
Orange utan - orangutan
Garno- garden

Thingmajig Mon 04-Apr-16 12:56:45

When she was small DD called triplets "giblets" ... still have no idea where both words came from since it's not something we talked about, either triplets or giblets!

She also thought babies had to be paid for at the hospital ... as in the new baby is 8lb (£8) whatever ... being brought up in the metric world she only associated pounds with money!
Strangely enough her own wee girl was very cheap (£2.14) but of course the most expensive baby in our whole family with her extended hospital stay!!! smile

pensionpat Mon 04-Apr-16 13:11:42

It's not only children. My friends and I have been discussing power of eternity.

Gagagran Mon 04-Apr-16 13:42:03

When I was little I always got mixed up with "shoulders" and "soldiers" and it often came out as a mixture of the two!

DG2 always called gloves "glubs".

tiggypiro Mon 04-Apr-16 13:42:43

Almost until the day she died at 101 my mother told me very frequently that I always said shish and fips because I couldn't say fish and chips.
DS called jumpers 'brennies' and slippers 'prets' but we have no idea why. 40 years later we still call them that.

Willow500 Mon 04-Apr-16 13:48:33

My son used to call celery Oliver - no idea why but we still use it today. My husband thought his mother worked in a park when he was a child - she worked part time and my mum always called £1coins cound poins. smile

Indinana Mon 04-Apr-16 13:56:02

My niece always called tomato ketchup 'kitchen kekkup'. After repeated corrections from her parents, it became 'Martin kitchen kekkup'.

merlotgran Mon 04-Apr-16 14:03:09

Bed Clo for a blanket because DS thought it was the singular of Bed Clothes
Soddits - sausages
Ballinster -bannister

DD (8) went into a record shop and searched in vain for the latest single from 'Mad Hat and Transfer.' for my birthday. I was heavily into Manhatten Transfer at the time grin

lefthanded Mon 04-Apr-16 14:10:37

Our son always referred to the empty tube from a toilet roll or kitchen roll as a "bandiag". We have never found out where that came from.

Penstemmon Mon 04-Apr-16 14:20:20

I referred to court shoes as 'Dockies' for years ..mum used to ask me to get her 'shoes and stockings' for her when I was just toddling!

We often went on the train for an afternoon at ' Hampt Courton' my DD2s version! Still find it hard to think of it as Hampton Court.

My brother sang. 'Once in royal david sooty stole a candle shed'