Funny words children invent

My som used to say hellitotot for helicopter and nocknock nicknick for chocolate biscuit. Daughter wore a cardington (confused with paddington i think) and said far so forcso far.
Grandson was given a nukeplele (ukulele) for christmas.

Some 30+ years later we still have a vacoom coomer, a top-open bus and a dubsin. For many years one of our treats was a packet of crips.

Elephants were lints. Animals were amials

Dgs 1 used to say 'as good as snake' when he was frustrated. We still use it.

My Mum used to write and save funny things our children said when young, alas the little book was lost when Mum passed away, and I cant think of anything they said!

As a child I couldn't say Car Park it was always a Par Cark, cattle grids were "bang bangs", in the days where they were round metal poles which rolled round when a car drove over them.

My DD always called midges "midgets"

My DGS & I always have "huggles"

My older son became very frustrated with me when I failed to grasp his demand for using "writing needles". It took him ages to make me understand............. drawing pins!!

From my sons hopistal (hospital) par cark (car park) My youngest son Neil when asked his name used to say Mowoo, his older brothers thought it hilarious and would continually ask him. If some thing was sticky he'd say it was scoogy. And he'd scoggle down in his bed at night.
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My sister used to say cosbe, because of the Wizard of Oz We're Off to See the Wizard (sing it in your head) and DD's friend said vegetablearian.

Welican boots for wellies and Centre Garden for garden centre.

DS used to come in from the garden having seen 'paterdiddlers eating all the cabbinges '
DGD , seeing a splendid gilded weathercock on our local church, piped up: "Ook at dat golden roof-chicken!"

These are hilarious. When we lived in Stirling my son used to refer to the Wallace Wallument. Our tv remote is still called the doot doot 40 years on.

Oops - meant the ones already posted were hilarious - not mine!!

The only one I can remember right now is that my DS used to call a screwdriver a 'goo-dubber'.

Chochlet and perscetti were my eldest son's favourites. Toffer and toffee because my second son couldn't say Christopher which is his brother's name.

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That made me laugh - my eldest DS is named Christian, and his little sister couldn't say that, so she called him 'Weese'.
Thirty years on, he's still known as Weese throughout the family!

My Grand daughter said Honey nest, for bee hive the other day.
I think it's lovely.

Just been to Spain for a week with the grandchildren, where the four year old made a little friend. She was from Holland and DGD told us she spoke duck.

The foreign languages teacher at the school I worked in was Mrs Lawlor, but 'madame' when she taught French. One of the children got terribly confused and called her 'Mrs Damn Lawlor' !

My friends little girl came to Sunday lunch and loved her 'auction' (Yorkshire) puddings.
My daughter came home after her school's Christmas dinner when she was about 5 or so, complaining about not liking the 'grussels snouts'. My brother in law then phoned up a local radio station to take part in a contest about the funniest of children's sayings and won the prize money by pretending it was his son who had coined the term!

We keep finches. When asked if he would like to name two of them my grandson bestowed the names of "washing line" and "pineapple" on the unfortunate birds!

It's so darling, what they come out with!

DD used to call a helicopter a higher cotton, and tell me to fitch the washing shamine (to rhyme with machine) on, or the wimscreamers (windscreen wipers). We still fitch things on or off to this day.

DGS called motorbikes popops, baked beans were punnies, ketchup was shapper, and his latest one was calling Wolverine Ovarine.

Wish they could stay at the mangled language stage forever!

When I was young (about 5/6)there was a fashion for boleros and I had a lovely white angora one, I was very proud of it. My father could never grasp the word and always called it my 'bothero'.
My DD always called cucumber 'cumbercube' and my DGD calls DVD's 'diveos'.

When I was young (about 5/6)there was a fashion for boleros and I had a lovely white angora one, I was very proud of it. My father could never grasp the word and always called it my 'bothero'.
My DD always called cucumber 'cumbercube' and my DGD calls DVD's 'diveos'.

When I was young (about 5/6)there was a fashion for boleros and I had a lovely white angora one, I was very proud of it. My father could never grasp the word and always called it my 'bothero'.
My DD always called cucumber 'cumbercube' and my DGD calls DVD's 'diveos'.