Has your child mispronounced something that you found really funny?

[Stepharoonie!]

We were bored Friday night, so we decided to go to Epcot to do some stuff. While waiting for Illuminations to start, we decided to ride on the Mexico ride (which was scary...and Maddy wanted to ride it 3 times in a row). When we were first launched into the water, it was really dark and kind of scary looking. Maddy grabbed our hands and said, "Oooh...it's SPOKIE!". I couldn't figure out what she meant, so I asked her what "spokie" was. Her reply was:

"Everything is spokie on Scooby Doo. Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you? We got work to do now...it's spooookkkiieee..."

She meant SPOOKY! I about died laughing when I said that, and she replied, "That's what I SAID! Spokie."

 

[olena]

Thanks to my sister's mispronounciation as a young child, we still say pistachio as piss-ta-choy....

 

[CEDmom]

Stepharoonie!,

That's too funny. My DD who's 4 often pronounces things wrong and I fight not to laugh at some of them. Of course for the life of me I can't remember any to post here .

 

[DISshopkeeper]

DD15 used to call a bathing suit a see-booday. We still use that term sometimes.

And for breakfast one of them said breaskitch and the other said breakdis.

There were lots more and I loved them!

 

[crz4mm2]

Pa sket eeee (for spaghetti of course!).

Lemon ahna A ( for an Aunt, leona mae).

There have been sooo many others. I can't remember right now.

Cathy

 

[wuv tigger]

for yes by dd who is 2

 

[Stepharoonie!]

My sister used to say "pol-nalish" for nail polish.

 

[Meriweather]

My favorites are still:
From DS.....Berber Kink (for Burger King) and
from DD....ink mingo (for pink flamingo).

 

[Bildmouse]

Grocery shopping with DS, 20, who at the time was less then 2 kept saying snakers, snakers. I thought something was wrong with his sneakers. We were near the deli and they had gummy worms in a jar which was what he wanted and he was calling them snake-ers. He will never live that one down!

 

[FreshTressa]

These are cute

My daughter at 5 still says "Bref-kist" every morning instead of breakfast.

I will be so sad when she grows out of it....

 

[kadaten]

At 2, DD couldn't pronounce her favorite movies...

Care to guess what they were?

1. Ya Ya
2. Naish (long a sound like in cake)



Ya Ya is a pretty easy one to figure out. It's Cinderella...think of a little kid trying to say "ella" and they say ya ya.

Naish, however, took us nearly a month to figure out!! And we only got it then because I put it in and she got SO excited and said over and over again..."It's NAISH!! It's NAISH!!" What is Naish? Well, it's Fantasia, of course!!

She had lots of cute mispronunciations....but DH is much better at remembering them than I am.

I gotta do a thread kinda like this one...where they say the funniest things but they don't quite understand....like for instance, DH had a hole in his sock. DD saw it and got very concerned..."OH, Daddy! You stepped on a hole! You stepped on a HOLE!!!!" Yes, she thinks the hole got there because Daddy stepped on it and it come off the ground and onto his sock!! Too cute!! Must go start that thread...

 

[Serena]

How about mispronouncing "dump truck". I hope you all can guess what it was.

 

[mouseclick1]

DS metioned something about "lynn-jeerie". Took me a bit to realize he meant lingerie!

 

[melk]

Check out my tag...her capri pants were referred to as crappy pants.

Also she liked to watch Snow White and the Seven Dorfs.

 

[Kermit]

My sister (26 years old) still calls belt loops "buck loops." We've told her what the correct word is, and she agrees that it makes more sense, but it's habbit.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

My daughter also says "Aireeohh" for Ariel She has a "mommy aireeohh and a baby aireeohh" for the tub

 

[swanmom]

Melk,
My DD had the other version -- "Snow White and the Seven Dorks !"

 

[cantsitstill]

I have 2 boys: one used to say mapkin - the other used to say raskin - (napkin).
When our second son just started talking, every time we were in the car he would point out the window and yell "no tin-tins! no tin-tins"! We thought there was something he didn't want or was unhappy about! After a few weeks of desperately trying to figure this out, our older son said, "there's so much snow in the mountains today! and our younger son said "yea!! no tin-tins!" Finally, we figured it out - "snow in the mountains!!" HA! Every first snow we yell "No tin-tins!! to this day......gotta love it!

 

[preb]

My DD (4) still calls McDonalds "Mickey nonalds". It must be the Disney in her!

 

[jwsqrdplus2]

DD5 said memolade for lemonade for the longest time.

DD2 is a blast right now. You never quite know what words/phrases will come out of her mouth!

Pispies = Rice Crispies
Foo Nak = fruit snack


I cannot put the funniest one in because it will not get past the censors, but you can imagine what FOX sounds like when mispronounced!