Children's misheard, misremembered or made up words.

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".

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

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!!!

Cockledeer - crocodile
Orange utan - orangutan
Garno- garden

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Evacuated milk,and stawbellyberries

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!