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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?

BBbevan Tue 05-Apr-16 11:40:03

DGD -- yoxshow, Yorkshire pudding and gravy

Phoebes Tue 05-Apr-16 11:33:34

When i was little i used to say spannieheel (spaniel) and vegebles (vegetables) and our daughter couldn't manage motor bike (mokkieba) or garden (garnoo). she once referred to a Fiat Panda as a flat panda and that one still sticks!

I still refer to vouchers as vultures! (More fun!)

GrandmasueUK Tue 05-Apr-16 11:21:14

We used to call into the church hall for a "teasted toe cake" and put on "tankle powder" in the bathroom.

Cosafina Tue 05-Apr-16 11:09:07

When DD was small we had:
Addy-baddy (spider)
Diffox (difficult)
Fitch = switch (fitch the light on)
Washing shamine (washing machine)
Wimscreamers (windscreen wipers)
Kaputch = Ketchup, and yet
Brekchup = Breakfast

DGS calls Ketchup Shapper, motorbikes are Pop-Pops, and baked beans are punnies.

We still refer to the destructions that come with a kit and tell you how to make it, the glubs that keep your hands warm, and having some buppy (bread and butter)

annodomini Tue 05-Apr-16 11:05:34

Garlic sausage was' Dalek sausage' when DS2 was little. When we strapped him into the car, we used t say, 'let's get you strapped in' and he referred to the car as the 'tapptin'; my father's car was 'Grandpa's tapptin'. Can't remember which of them referred to a banana as a 'bomana'. When we were young, the shreds in marmalade were known as 'marmles' and I still think of them as such.

moira13 Tue 05-Apr-16 10:43:00

Budweiser is known as Bugweiser after DS called it this when about 3. Also ocks and oes for socks and shoes, ephelant and tephelone.

milkflake Tue 05-Apr-16 10:42:58

One of my sons had bother with words starting with C so cupboards were bugoards, it did sound as if he was swearing smile

Par Carks, Trailway Lacks , so many children have difficulty with hospital, hopital smile

I have a friend who always says wardrop, instead of wardrobe, she really doesn't know she is saying it so I have never had the heart to correct her!

Juggernaut Tue 05-Apr-16 10:37:36

My mum, when being terribly 'posh' asked for a large 'smorked poke' sausage.
DS called umbrellas 'underbrellas' because you stand under them!
Until I was about eight or nine I thought the slide at the simming pool, the chute, was the 'chutty'!
My nana had a friend who went to live in 'Fran Scanscrisco'!
In our house now slippers are 'piddies', the tv remote is the 'diggler', and the footstools are the 'dumpties'!

2old4hotpants Tue 05-Apr-16 10:37:32

When little my daughter always chose a bedtime song for me to sing to her after her story. One night she requested “The Blue Man” song. I struggled to recall such a song. Annoyed with me, she said “you know Mum, blue man grow forever”. Of course, then I realised it was a line from Edelweiss - bloom and grow forever

Lindajoy Tue 05-Apr-16 10:33:50

My Mum when the boys were into Star Wars:
Archie Dee Too (R2D2)
Daft Hapeth (Darth Vader)

Elder son: Snow White and the Seven Woofs!

inishowen Tue 05-Apr-16 10:31:13

As a child i called lipstick "wiss wiss".
My daughter called deoderant "Dundee".
I overhead a woman in Tesco call aromatic duck, "automatic duck"!
The empty toilet roll was called a "do do" because of the sound you could make when blowing into it.
Oh, I could go on, but others will have more funnies to add.

Al1gran Tue 05-Apr-16 10:29:56

U be dareful (you be careful) We still say this today

moobox Tue 05-Apr-16 10:04:46

My toddler's mispronunciation of his sister's name has been a password of mine for the last 30 plus years. Meanwhile, all those years on, I have to put up with a DH who refuses to learn any foreign words properly, so will sit in a restaurant and tell me he wants tisamiru for dessert. Of course he knows it's wrong, and won't say it to the waiter, so just points at the menu item

angie95 Tue 05-Apr-16 09:57:25

Samallama instead of Salmonella and Vanninog for Vanilla from my daughter and she still can not say Salmonella, My husband has trouble with Necessarily he says necercellary,,

oznan Tue 05-Apr-16 09:56:16

Uncle Stephen-Timon
Grandad-gangan
Microphone-michaelphone
Banana-banabana
Another one-nunion
My son always had a headache in his tummy.
And my nephew told me,after running down a long flight of steps,that his legs were dizzy!

michellehargreaves Tue 05-Apr-16 09:46:56

We always refer to Asti Spumante as Nasty Spumante.

SueDoku Tue 05-Apr-16 09:40:08

My late FIL once informed us that he'd left the car in 'the culty-morey star park'.... they've been known as that ever since (30+ years..!) in our family - even by his DGC, who were babies at the time smile

Zengran Tue 05-Apr-16 09:36:41

DGD calls make up "snake up" and DS used to call ambulances "dinar", I think that referred to the noise, dee-nar, dee-nar :-)

Tudorrose Tue 05-Apr-16 09:36:12

In the 60s I was in hospital in a ward with mostly old ladies, I was in my 20s. One lady died in the night and another patient said " They give her artificial perspiration but it dae do no good" I'm not surprised !

JS06 Tue 05-Apr-16 09:33:33

A relative announced that her father had been taken off to the "palatial" care suite at hospital, she meant palliative care and she caused a smile in very difficult circumstances.

My daughter used to refer to ashleyes (eyelashes) and cutletry (cutlery).

Halsgran2 Tue 05-Apr-16 09:24:56

Two misheads come to my mind from nearly 40 years ago, I used to do a village collection for Fishermen and my (then) little son would come with me, he knew most people in the village, and rushed up to one elderly gentleman, "Uncle.... we are here for the fishmens erection (collection), I still remember the shock on the chaps face. The other was vlishit, for biscuit, he was furious the first time that I could not understand what it was he wanted and threw a right tantrum.

Pamaga Tue 05-Apr-16 09:23:11

My OH once referred to Kenf***y Tried Chicken.
As a child I thought the words of the prayer Gentle Jesus "Pity my simplicity" were "Pity mice implicitly",
My Scots Mum thought that 'Jesus bids us shine' was 'Jesus bits do shine' (ie bits being boots to her childish ears).
My children referred to biscuits as dibdits, yogurt as logurt, the icecream van as the yayoo.
I used to refer to a neighbour from across the road as Anne opposite to differentiate from Anne up the road. My son thought for years that her name was Anne Ossopit.

shysal Tue 05-Apr-16 09:03:35

DD1 couldn't always remember the name of the neighbours' new baby, and one day called him Simple instead of Simon! She also referred to the baby's father, Robert, as Rabbit. Needless to say those were the names we used in private for ever more.

TrishTopcat Tue 05-Apr-16 08:05:52

My youngest said 'fuming beans' for human beings. And 'the Man who got lost in the Dark' for the Indiana Jones film 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

mumofmadboys Tue 05-Apr-16 07:56:02

My son used to call speech therapy giggly goggly so we all did!