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words that grandchildren mispronounce

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HowVeryDareYou Mon 03-Oct-22 21:51:08

Isn't it endearing when grandchildren get words mixed up or mispronounce things? Our granddaughter (8, the other day) is bright, funny, clever, etc., but can't say "Chimpanzee". She calls it Chinzambee grin. We laughed (even though it was her birthday) but she didn't seem to mind.

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Retread Mon 03-Oct-22 21:53:00

smile

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Wyllow3 Mon 03-Oct-22 22:00:06

I shall be devastated when I stop being gan-ma and he can say his "r's". sunshine

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Urmstongran Mon 03-Oct-22 22:03:28

One of our daughters when young was bought a plush toy. It was so cute. A hippopotamus. She couldn’t say it.
‘Hit a pom a tus’ was her best effort for a long time. That was 40 years ago and it still makes me smile when I think back.

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Callistemon21 Mon 03-Oct-22 22:08:35

We had a peggawing ?
?

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ixion Mon 03-Oct-22 22:13:14

Andulblance here.

And, for pylons, blom bloms

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Lucca Mon 03-Oct-22 22:34:31

Dicker decker bus

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Yammy Mon 03-Oct-22 22:38:12

paterkillers and dancadills also lasterplasters.

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Witzend Mon 03-Oct-22 22:42:43

Pennywig. (Penguin)
Squillow (squirrel)

My favourite mish-mash, though, was when a very tiny dd said, ‘Nekth week, nekth time ago….’

She meant yesterday - or tomorrow - so long ago now I can’t remember.

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bytheway Mon 03-Oct-22 22:43:35

Yorkchips (instead of Yorkshire)

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Aldom Mon 03-Oct-22 22:44:42

Robin Breasthead! Granddaughter when she was about four years old.

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Kate1949 Mon 03-Oct-22 22:51:27

Our granddaughter who is 22 now loved her 'nanny and branddad'.

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Callistemon21 Mon 03-Oct-22 23:01:05

Aldom

Robin Breasthead! Granddaughter when she was about four years old.

? oh dear, I'm choking now!

We still use envelblokes for cards and letters ✉

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Aldom Mon 03-Oct-22 23:04:08

Love the 'envelblokes'. You couldn't make it up! grin

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Callistemon21 Mon 03-Oct-22 23:06:23

Aldom

Love the 'envelblokes'. You couldn't make it up! grin

Only a 3 year old!
Oops, mine were both gems from a DC not the DGC.

Read the question! blush

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Fairislecable Mon 03-Oct-22 23:09:05

Boat loving grandson always said wella pella for propeller.

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Norah Mon 03-Oct-22 23:16:13

Widdough

We have a little dog.

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SueDonim Mon 03-Oct-22 23:21:56

Instead of an empire biscuit my GD asked for a vampire biscuit.

My DS (I know this is for GC grin) talked about wide screen scrapers for windscreen wipers and his best friend loved to be driven on dual cabbage ways.

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GrandmaKT Mon 03-Oct-22 23:23:11

Flamingos will always be "Finger Moles" in our family!

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MiniMoon Mon 03-Oct-22 23:25:46

We still wash clothes in the "washing it clean", from DGD aged 2.

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V3ra Tue 04-Oct-22 00:02:43

MiniMoon we use a "washer-sheen" to do our laundry ?

Little grandson, 18m, refers to "ot" and "not ot" for hot and cold.

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Calendargirl Tue 04-Oct-22 06:52:57

DD, now 48, used to call a clock the ‘tock tick’.

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notgran Tue 04-Oct-22 09:26:23

"Cardig-on please". "Too hot now, cardig-off". Daughter said this over 30 years ago and we all still repeat it when putting on cardigans or taking them off. She had a friend called Melanie. Or as she called her Menalee. grin

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Greenfinch Tue 04-Oct-22 09:39:03

Tink and lorry for articulated lorry.

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Auntieflo Tue 04-Oct-22 09:46:39

'Evacuated' milk for evaporated , Par Cark and Polls Dram.
All from eldest son before starting school.

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