Children's misheard, misremembered or made up words.

My son had very down to earth names for things;
Hedge houses were thatched cottages.
Foot nails were toe nails and his Playmobil type people were peedees.

One of DiL's sisters invented "bangbotty" when she was little. I'll let you work out for yourselves what it means .

It's been used by their family ever since, and ours too now that our DGC use it.

When he was learning to talk, my son couldn't make the sound 'sp' so he had a fork and a foon at mealtimes. Once he mastered the tricky pronunciation, he graduated to a spoon and a spork.
My mother discovered 'rataquill' and recommended it as delicious. We call it ratatouille. My younger cousins could never manage Elizabeth and their efforts produced Aluffafuff, shortened to Fuff, Alushabush, shortened to Bush, and Bepbep.

Bananas were always 'longlongs'
And wye screepers were windscreen wipers

Dgd (3) asks for Peter Potter (peanut butter) on her toast.

My DS when she was little : Bald pie horses - piebald horses
DD underbella for umbrella, park cars for car park
and we eat bee narnas as my friends DD always called them.

Just remembered another one from when DS2 was small - he insisted that he wanted to watch his video of the film "A Fight With an Alligator". It took us quite a while to realise that what he wanted to watch was a very popular movie at that time, The Flight of the Navigator.........

my ex hubby always called VOLVO cars - VULVA which always caused a raised eyebrow when anyone else overheard!

My second Grandaughter calls me Jam. Her Auntie is GeeGee her name is Gillian. ?

My little ones call me Gaga. I fear there may be a predictive element to this, but I like it and I'm sure that's who I'll always be.

DGS1 - A helicopter flying overhead - a 'helicopper', and, coincidentally, it was a police chopper.
One DGD referred to anything in the sky as 'moon', whether it was a pigeon or a jumbo jet, or even the moon.

My DD -(40 years ago now) - used to say " in the whole WILD world". I still say it!

My daughter used to wear cardingtons. My son said far so instead of so far, and tetun was television, helicopter was hellitotot.
My grandmother drank typhoo tea snd had condescension running dowm the kitchen walls when cooking.
I had a friend whose son liked eating noknoknikniks (chocolate biscuits)

We used to live in Naples and in the garden were cute tiny lizards which we and the locals called Chit Chats. My daughter age 5 at the time, went to school where the topic of the day was food. They all had to say what they were having that day for tea. My girl proudly announced to the class she was having lizard and onions for tea. Hope the teacher realised this was not quite correct.

We still call dressing gowns "towels" in our house, as DS1'sdaddy had a towelling one when he was very small.
My favourite is "Vulture" for vouchers... and "nappy bread" for soggy bread e.g. under baked beans!

My DP,who's first language is not English,wondered why I laughed when he referred to his sister's triplets as ' the threesome'.

Oh I do like these. They make language so personal and are such a laugh too.
Anno we had marmers in our marmalade as children, and still do.
My DD went to brontosaurus school (Montessori) and my DS wanted to know why the dinosaurs had been vacuumed out (wiped out). We still have Little Brown Cakes with roast beef, and both children loved the film Steal Dinosaur - it was actually One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing, but it was a Peter Ustinov quote from it.
Now small DGS (not yet 3) likes chewbunker, not cucumber, and helicopters are Wockas because that's the noise Chinooks make when they fly over his house.

Hello icyalittle. Where've you been? (long time etc)

My nephew used to call the TV remote the flickydicker. Somehow it seemed perfect.

Fabulous hearing what other folks say.
A friend's son couldn't pronounce his "r"s so we all used to practise with him saying "r" "r" which he mastered so well. Then he would say "r" "r" Wobin!
He's a grown professional man now, happily married with boys of his own.
I had a colleague, a young newly qualified solicitor who used to say Firsday!! We got on well and one day I asked why she said Firsday did she know it was Thursday? She smiled coyly and said it was what she said at play school!
I see her now in the playground with her 3 little sons. I would love to ask her what day it is when it's THursday!

DS always said patterdiddlers instead of caterpillars, and at his school harvest festival, he loudly sang "Here we come with Joycie, bringing in the sheets"

My Greek Grandaughter told her mother I had Mango wings and it has stuck. Sounds better than bingo wings anyway.

My daughter said "bunny stairs" instead of bannisters for a long while.
My son often said "aminals"

DGS 18 months - cochlet (chocolate) and bicsit (biscuit).

Marks and spensive - Marks & Spencer - was a classic
Oh and git instead of stick used to make me laugh
And armbow rather than elbow, another good one.