Has your child mispronounced something that you found really funny?

[WDWFOREVER]

For ages we listened to our DS who was about 3 at the time (he is now 10) singing "Oily feet from side to side for me". We didn't have a clue until we sat and watched Aladdin one day and it was the song "Ali Baba and his forty thieves". The oily feet were the forty thieves!

Saying "trilldren" for "children" - I didn't have the heart to correct him as I loved it!

"Pinket" instead of "Piglet" - well, he was pink!

"The fat en fat en foller" instead of "The Fat Controller" from Thomas the Tank Engine.

Just a few which spring to mind.

I love this thread - it has brought back some lovely memories!

 

[~*Belle 2003*~]

My sister used to say GROTOFARTS instead of photographs!

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

I get made fun of this still today. When I was younger, my family was going on vacation to Yellowstone and I pronounced the Teton Mountain Range as Tit-on. I will never live that down. My sister says Yose-mite instead of Yosemite. We had to keep telling her it was pronounced like Yosemite Sam on Looney Toones.

 

[always quiet]

My youngest, who is now 9, calls concrete, to this day "con-creek" The word concrete just won't come out the way it should!

All my kids, when they were about 2, had their first M & M 's. They ALL would call them "num-a-nums" What was always funny is they would just keep repeating the word as they were eatting them. The more they would say it, the more they would slobber....in all the pretty colors of the candy!!

 

[browneyes]

Yep. My dd wanted to eat at Outback when we went to visit her uncle one time. But she said Backout instead of Outback, so we call it Backout now.

My ds wanted to visit my brother one time (same brother). He was living in an apartment at the time. He wanted to know when we were ever going to go see his uncle at his bpartment.

 

[AngieBelle]

I can't remember anything really funny from when I was really little, but I can think of more recent ones. I used to think alumni was pronounce aloomni. I used to think thesaurus was pronounced the-a-saurus (well, the first time I saw that word, I thought it looked a dinosaur's name!). I also used to have the worst trouble with the word specific. I would always say pacific. I used to get as and has mixed up too.

My baby book says that when I was a toddler, I once said "When I grow down, I will be a baby just like Paula." (Paula is my younger sister.)

 

[GlennandAnn]

Our 5 y/o DS has provided us with many laughs. Some of them are:

powerskraut for sauerkraut
willy loom for living room
dego waffles for eggo waffles

He keeps us laughing with these mispronunciations and others. I can't wait until our 16 month old really starts talking. The only thing he misprounces is gogi for yogurt.


Ann

 

[GlennandAnn]

I forgot 2 good Disney related ones:

Honka Mansha for Haunted Mansion
Mitchie Goon for Typhoon Lagoon


Ann

 

[Duchie]

DD used to say the "P" sound instead of "F" - so she had plowers (flowers), progs (frogs), ploor (floor)... you get the idea. To this day we still say we have "wapples" for breakfast.

 

[onecoolmama]

My DS3 always tells us that Daddy and him have a Peanuts and Mommy and Julie do not.

I laugh so hard..but my DH doesn't think he has a peanuts..so it is not as funny to him

 

[stevenpensacola]

Had corn-on-the-cob with dinner one night. I finished eating an ear of corn and set the bare cob next to my plate. My daughter asks "Daddy, why aren't you going to eat the corn BONE?"

 

[Kimickey]

DN was three at the time , her father asked her to hand him the remote and she said "geeshy I'm not your surgent". She was trying to say "geesh I'm not your servant". We fell out in laughter.

 

[shep]

Nemo always gets pronounced as Emo...

 

[bratus913]

My 3 1/2 yo DD pronounces 'truck' with an 'f' in place of the 't'. You can believe I did a double take the first time she said that!!

Dessert has become 'bessert'.

Kids are too funny. The best thing about them mispronouncing words is that 'little-kid' voice they do it in!!

 

[Belle1962]

HE doesn't mispronounce it but he "mishears" it: my DGS has turned into the "bad word" police. If you say sh*t he says "you said a bad word". If you say SHOOT he says the same thing--you said a bad word. he doesn't think there is a difference.

 

[cati]

When my DS was about 2 1/2 his cousins were into cheerleading. They did the cheer "How funcky is your chicken, how loose is your goose? While going down the road in the car, my DS ask my DH "Dad what does FU_ _ mean? He had misunderstood how to pronouce the word funcky. Well, my DH did not know where he came up with such a bad word and said he about vaporlocked. Then of course my son said, You know dad, the chicken that is fu?? Needless to say we taught him that night the correct way to say that cheer. LOL

 

[letfuller]

My DD 6 has come up with some funnies:

Auntie Alone for Auntie Leone

Auntie Nancy is Antsy Nancy

(sad part is that both of these names are somewhat accurate! )


Also a few years ago, battling to have her listen to directions, she says, "Yes Mom, I need to follow erections!!" I quickly changed my word choice to instructions!!!

Too funny the things kids come up with.


Linda

 

[preshi]

Austin says Eeemey Meemey Mimey Mo, for Eeney Meeney, Miney, Mo

He also used to mispronounce truck... LOL

I know there are more but I can't think of any of them of course

 

[DD2Disney]

DS mispronounced truck as well...he still does mispronounce it if he is saying dumptruck...

he is starting to try to tell jokes... this is the example:

John: knock knock

Me: Who's there?

John: John John.....and starts giggling really hard.

He thinks that's the joke It makes me laugh

Today he called my nightgown a "white gown"

 

[KrnB]

li-berry (library) and cramma (camera) are the first ones that come to mind that I said when I was little. I'm sure Patabel has lots more...

I know "insultments" was a favorite word for my parents. I don't remember how old I was, but I was trying to sound really smart by using big words. Oops

After my brain surgery a few years ago, I had a difficult time with speech memory. I would often forget a word mid-sentence, so I usually just tried my best. The results were often pretty funny. A favorite was when I was complaining about my difficulties with my speech, and I mentioned that I felt "scooterbrained" - which was probably just as accurate as the word scatterbrained. It's a good word that we still use.

My stepson liked to use the word "a-wee-en" (alien)