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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?

Jalima Wed 06-Apr-16 22:06:15

DGD has been spying something beginning with 'blue' (the sky), 'green' (grass), 'red' (a car) ....
At least she knows her colours!

Newquay Wed 06-Apr-16 22:41:26

Fabulous, one of my DGDs used to say "I spy with my little eye something beginning with. . . . .yellow" lol!
My dear Mum used like just a slither of cake.
A friend of my dear sister says of her DGC "it's just a phrase they're going through" ?

Luckygirl Wed 06-Apr-16 22:53:53

From my sister when small: I spy something beginning with J - after lengthy attempts to discover what it was we finally gave in and she proudly said: "Jressing gown!"

Luckygirl Wed 06-Apr-16 22:58:00

Sticky toffee pudding became stiffy cocky pudding - we always call it that now.

NanaandGrampy Wed 06-Apr-16 23:10:32

Nearly drowned at the pool when4 yr old grandson asked for his "gobbles" .

He followed that up with the fact that what he would really like is a "snorker" instead smile

Indinana Wed 06-Apr-16 23:18:30

When we were little my parents used to play I Spy With My Little Eye Something The Colour Of.... this for the tinies who hadn't yet learnt to spell (and the older ones used to join in as well, bless them).

watermeadow Thu 07-Apr-16 11:24:55

My third baby (who is 43) has a futility room, where nothing' s in the right place.

lujaha Thu 07-Apr-16 21:49:52

We three kings of glory and tar
Maffis - massive
Disgusterous
Countylater - calculator
Hephellafant

clangers72 Thu 07-Apr-16 21:57:08

My 3 year old grandson asked for a cold compost when he hurt himself. Its been that ever since

Falconbird Fri 08-Apr-16 07:53:44

I couldn't say shoulders but said soldiers instead. My second son called fruit and ice cream gock and gimmer and my youngest son called Father Christmas - Farmer Christmas.

Skweek1 Fri 08-Apr-16 14:06:30

DD1 learnt two songs when she was little - "Come for a row in my pink blue boat" (I think it was meant to be big not pink, but still like the idea of a magenta boat!) and the other was by Queen, and we still sing about "We are the Shampoos of the world".But it's not just kids. My elderly aunt came from Aberdeen to visit and offered to make supper. "I'll make scrambled eggs". My father, having enjoyed the eggs sighed happily "Ah, there's nothing like scrambled eggs" and couldn't understand when she burst into tears - she thought he was criticising that "That's nothing like . . . " We had some Royal Worcester egg coddlers, and the same aunt thought they were egg cuddlers". Happy memories.

Jalima Fri 08-Apr-16 14:30:55

We have a friend who still pronounces 'hospital' as 'hospikal' and 'little' as 'likkle'
Is it a Manchester thing?

Marmight Fri 08-Apr-16 14:48:34

DD's FiL insists on calling his prostate his prostrate even though he has been put right on more than one occasion. I know a lot of people do mistake one for t'other. We crease up every time it is mentioned - which is often.
I had an Uncle Cyril and for years right up to my teens he was, in my head, Uncle Squirrel until one day the truth dawned....
As for scrambled eggs - my Dad always called them scrambled 'legs' and my DDs and DGCs call them the same to this day.

Greyduster Fri 08-Apr-16 15:11:11

When our grandson was about three and a half, we took him on the tram. There is a recorded announcement for each upcoming stop and the one for Granville Road comes out sounding very like 'Crumble Road'. GS said "that man said this is Crumble Road. Is it because it's made of crumble, Nanny?" We did put him right, but we can't think of it as anything but Crumble Road now!

MargaretinNorthant Sat 09-Apr-16 12:07:01

When I was a child

from God Bless the Prince of Wales........oh, let the prairie echo. It seemed reasonable enough to me at the time, if we all sang lound enough it would..wouldn't it?

and
Or moor and fen, or crag and torrentill, the night be gone

I asked my mother what it was she didn't know either, but I visualised it as a little red flower, bit like a scarlet pimpernel

Indinana Sat 09-Apr-16 13:32:18

DD used to get 'eggcups' and to this day hiccoughs are so-called in our family grin

AlieOxon Sat 09-Apr-16 18:33:45

My older daughter used to say she was ' hiccing up'....well it's logical!

whitewave Sat 09-Apr-16 18:52:25

Thuman beans from son

Elrel Sun 10-Apr-16 17:55:33

After accidentally jumping on a delicate area of his father a small DGS assured me that he wouldn't jump on daddy's besticles again!