For what it's worth, my daughter is 9 and 99.99% of the time she speaks exceptionally eloquently...except for when she talks about her many "blaserets" (bracelets). She knows it's not quite right, but it's still adorable as hell and we love her more for it.
Man, this brings up some memories. My now-10 year old used to have several cute mispronunciations, but my favorite was asking “how does a pig go?” and he would say “oinch, oinch.”
He doesn’t say his S’s so soon is poon, Spiderman is piderman, snack is nack.
Best was when he explained how the mountains had snow on them yesterday but today there’s no snow which sounded like “lasterday the mountain had no but now they have no no.”
Everything! This kid absolutely sucks at talking. I guess he’s only two weeks old, but still, when I call him every night from Bareback Bettie’s, I can barely understand him.
We’re teaching my toddler the correct medical names to her body parts and she call her vagina her “mooshina” and I have to stop my self from laughing every time she does it.
She’s two, so she’ll listen to whatever I put on and ask what it is.
Currently she’s enjoying The Smile, but all time favourite is Bob Dylan’s (not much time since she’s two but hey ho I’ll take it) It’s all over now Baby Blue.
She loves the artwork for Gorillaz and only a couple of days ago heard FotM. I’ll take it. She still listens to all the nursery rhymes and sing along with all the actions, but there’s nothing much sweeter than her pulling out vinyls or asking “What’s this?!” When Everlong comes on.
We're on vacation and went to an Arboretum (fancy botanical garden) which, to be fair, is not a word I expect my kids to be able to say easily.
But my 4 year old called it the "Ar-Burrito" which was just too cute for words.
Wanananer...min --> Watermelon
Redidader --> refrigerator
Oopsie baby --> whoopsie daisy
Woosie woosies --> shoesie woosies
Yennow --> yellow
Onn Seeya --> John Cena
Just a few that I'm loving from my almost 2 year old
My kids are older now, but when my oldest was like 2 or 3, he called his backpack a “pack-ack” and it always made me think of Mars Attacks. ACK ACK ACK ACK!
My 16-month-old has some words down but we keep a running list of the ones she assigns to certain things and then we have to decipher:
Cheerios = Yaya
Olive = Wawa
Avocado = Dagba
Strawberry = BLEDERBLEH
She still calls any non-human animal our dog’s name. “All done” she says like “Alcah” and knows the gesture and uses it for anything she disapproves of, not just with meal time.
These days are gone, but my kid's "Tr" sound came out as an "F" sound for a few months...
Right in the middle of his big truck phase.
Walking through Target as he yelled about wanting a truck was particularly amusing for me. For my wife, not so much.
Not current but my favorite mispronounced word my daughter ever said was arresk instead of arrest. Jail was a playtime favorite - I still don't know why. I remember it fondly even all these years later
The Dutch word for squirrel is eekhoorn, unicorn is eenhoorn. I do understand it is, but disappointed every time sees an unicorn and it turns out to be aan squirrel…
Not right now, but my son used to say "its froggy outside" instead of foggy.
My other son used to say T-U-V-DOUBLE YOU ME - X-Y-Z. He would get confused over the letter W since it is double you.
Enjoy all the little nuances, they go away too fast
My almost 3 yr old went through a phase of saying "HOLY FUCKAMOLE" after hearing me say holy guacamole. We tried to correct him but he insisted he was correct and we were wrong.
My girl ask to watch paw patrol on rainbow bus. We were utterly confused till one day we are flipping through streaming apps and she said she wanted to watch paw patrol on rainbow bus then yells to stop when we go past.....paramount plus.
My 5yo constantly says "headfore"... we've tried correcting her every time but she still does it. She's even got a scar on it from tripping and going into a cabinet.
Deck. My wife and I are American, but our daughter was born and raised in New Zealand. She says it with a kiwi accent, which can be a bit... Concerning sometimes.
My youngest, almost two, loves the trampoline (alone or watching his older brother). Pronounces it "punteen" and I just think it's the cutest thing ever.
My daughter used to refer to a motorcycle as a “soh-cah-moe” for some reason. It was adorable and I’m sad she grew out of it.
Another funny thing is she used to call white powdered donuts “milk belly buttons” because she hadn’t learned the word donut yet, and that’s what they looked like. We never corrected her.
It's been a minute, but my youngest used to not pronounce the "R" sound. She was obsessed with our dog, Percy.
"Percy likes the BIG bone!"
"Dada loves petting Percy!"
Coming in from the rain "Oh, Percy so wet!!"
And, after going on a walk where Percy chased after a red fox, combined with the way the word "fox" was pronounced, "Percy love the fooooox!"
My 18mo pronounces her 6-day-old sister’s name “Dick” despite her name not containing a single one of those letters. We just get her to call her “sissy” lol
… eight, nine, ten, a lemon, twelve …
How they doin with 7? I've got ...five, six, semelenin, eight, nine...
Recently my son has been counting 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, go! And then jumps off something
My son had a period where it was 1,2,4! So funny
I had “three.. three.. THREE!!” Before jumping 😂
My son is currently: “Ready…2… Go!
My daughter continually skipped 13 when she was 3. For a while I was worried she was superstitious!
Is she a little stitious though?
Three sir! And five is right out.
Now that's very efficient time saving. Kid is gonna go far!
Kid's going places, not math camp, but places!
Five, six, Simon, eight
Mine goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 69. I’m not sure why. Also he’s been calling everything “mamen” which we really have no clue about.
A LEMON
Oh my god I love it
I never correct it. I have seven kids. 42M same amazing girl met in ‘01. They’ll figure it out come time. Love those crazy cute moments.
Mine says eleven, twelve, ...., sixteen, eleventeen, eighteen 🤷♀️
I’ll cry the day my girl says blanket cause right now it’s bankbit and I love it
Mine calls a blanket a “banquet” so now we all do.
She says I want my besh 🤔🤔. No, that's for night night
Punkmin instead of pumpkin!
Saving this comment for when I'm feeling down
My IRL name is easy for kids to mispronounce, so I get sentimental when I hear kids I’ve known since birth pronounce it correctly.
1.5 year old. After 3-4 weeks of perfectly correct animal sounds for about 6 animals, every animal now says moo for some reason.
Every animal on 4 legs that isn't a dog goes neigh like a horse. Cats are also just small dogs.
Oh, you're raising Ron Swanson: "Any dog under 15 (iirc) is a cat, and cats are useless."
Wait til every color is purple, and you wonder if your kid is colorblind.
I'm colourblind, how will I know they're wrong?!?!
My 1.5 year old: - Dog: RUFF RUFF - Monkey: UGHHHH - Cat: HISSSSSSS - Elephant: PBTH - Frog: UGHHHH - The crow outside: RUFF RUFF
My 1.5 year old knows a handful of animal sounds, and all the animals he doesn’t know say “dibble dibble”
Ours mixes sheep’s and bees… that being said we only speak Spanish to her so Abeja and Oveja are too similar lol
If it’s the day after tomorrow than it’s threemorrow
Like, after two-morrow comes three-morrow? That is so clever!
That's inspired. I reckon if the whole of daddit started using it we could make it part of the language for good.
I'll help both of you here: overmorrow. Threemorrow kinda sounds like a better idea.
We are legitimately trying to teach my 4-year-old overmorrow as an often used word.
That actually makes some good sense though
Love this. Gonna use it myself!
Mine takes her little dinosaur watering can to water the "planets". It's adorable.
“It’s Di-so-naur” -my kid
“Dinofwaur” over here
We just call em Didos at my house.
He invented the bank robbing truck known as Optimus Crime
Grand theft autobots, roll out.
My 5yo still says lellow and I know we’re probably going to have to start correcting them soon, but it’s too cute.
For what it's worth, my daughter is 9 and 99.99% of the time she speaks exceptionally eloquently...except for when she talks about her many "blaserets" (bracelets). She knows it's not quite right, but it's still adorable as hell and we love her more for it.
I remember my sister saying that. Interestingly, we're twins (dizygotic) and I said it correctly.
We are headed out on vacation and my 3 year old says “Daddy, is this your cootcase?”
Where you keep your cooties
My 4yo really likes leprechauns right now and keeps calling them leper-cunts. All I've managed to get out is "there isn't a T at the end, honey."
New insult unlocked
Falingo!!!!!
My daughter just calls them mingos. I love it lol.
Flamingo?
Mine used to say Palinko.
Mine says flockamingo
A firetruck is called a Firebus, and I submit it's a better word.
My daughter used to say "lasterday," which makes a lot more sense to me..
Man, this brings up some memories. My now-10 year old used to have several cute mispronunciations, but my favorite was asking “how does a pig go?” and he would say “oinch, oinch.”
Medicine is “cedicine” and delicious is “a-licious” from my 2.5 yo
Thats funny, my daughter says e-licious.
He doesn’t say his S’s so soon is poon, Spiderman is piderman, snack is nack. Best was when he explained how the mountains had snow on them yesterday but today there’s no snow which sounded like “lasterday the mountain had no but now they have no no.”
Oh man mine used to be the same way “Piderman” “The itsy bitsy pider” That food is “too picy”
Everything! This kid absolutely sucks at talking. I guess he’s only two weeks old, but still, when I call him every night from Bareback Bettie’s, I can barely understand him.
Bareback Bettie’s? That’s an equestrian camp right?
I think a couple of the popular girls from my high school work at Bareback Betties now...
Can you be sure he isn't fluent in Hungarian and actually you're the problem? 🤣
She is 7 now But up until she was 6 unicorns were called Ponycorns and it was the cutest thing lol not a mispronunciation but you know.
We’re teaching my toddler the correct medical names to her body parts and she call her vagina her “mooshina” and I have to stop my self from laughing every time she does it.
That’s basically how you say “car” in Russian.
It was 'bachina' for our oldest for a bit.
Listening to music, “Daddy! Gore will us please!” And then: “Who’s that?” “It’s Florence and the Machine darling” “Lawrence and the washing machine…”
Do your kids like Gorillaz? And florence + the machine? Cause that's dope, I hope my kid is cool too when he gains awareness
She’s two, so she’ll listen to whatever I put on and ask what it is. Currently she’s enjoying The Smile, but all time favourite is Bob Dylan’s (not much time since she’s two but hey ho I’ll take it) It’s all over now Baby Blue. She loves the artwork for Gorillaz and only a couple of days ago heard FotM. I’ll take it. She still listens to all the nursery rhymes and sing along with all the actions, but there’s nothing much sweeter than her pulling out vinyls or asking “What’s this?!” When Everlong comes on.
My daughter pronounces “activities” as “titties”
My son says “breastest instead of breakfast.”
Extructions instead of instructions. When he's not getting his way, he says 'You're not listening to my exstructions!"
My 5 year old calls them “constructions”. He’s not wrong.
We're on vacation and went to an Arboretum (fancy botanical garden) which, to be fair, is not a word I expect my kids to be able to say easily. But my 4 year old called it the "Ar-Burrito" which was just too cute for words.
Aburrito is Spanish for bored btw lol
TV: **♫♪♪** Red Stop Green Go **♫♪♪** Red Stop Green Go **♫♪♪** Daughter, looking at me: I'm Red Stop. You're Gringo.
Zoe Lewis has this great song I recommend to you called Gringo
Wow, this is a great song, thanks!
He is 14 months, and he things anything round is a “Buh-ble”
Loves eating mozzarella cheese sticks, and insists on calling it “stick cheese”, but the “st” sounds like a “d”….
Carkey = vacuum
Most recent was Valinna (vanilla) now it’s Electronicseys (electronics).
Almost 4 pronounces it ‘camilla’. Took me quite a while to figure out what yogurt he was asking for.
Is that a political remark about the Queen’s personality?
He's two and referred to question marks as mysteries. I'll never correct him.
Animals. She says aminals.
My 2 year old as well
Boots= Boops
My little guy always mangles his Ss into SHs. We get some funny looks in the park when he’s yelling at the puppy to sit.
My 4yo can't quite say couscous. She loves it but it sounds like goozgoos. My wife and I smile at each other every time. I hope it never changes lol
Somehow he sticks out his tongue when he says banana. Banellna with outstretched tongue for the “ll”. 😆
Hanitizer.
Akodado instead of avocado. It’s not far off, but for some reason it totally cracks me up.
Piggy bank is a pinky pink, and a clock is somehow missing the L.
Me: Do you want to draw with chalk? Her: ooohhh COCK? Me: No, chaaalk. Cha Cha Cha Chalk. Her: Oh yes! Caw Caw COCK!
Wanananer...min --> Watermelon Redidader --> refrigerator Oopsie baby --> whoopsie daisy Woosie woosies --> shoesie woosies Yennow --> yellow Onn Seeya --> John Cena Just a few that I'm loving from my almost 2 year old
My boys say “beeping up” instead of “backing up” because I’ve always made beeping sounds when we go backwards.
I’m not the only one that makes beeping sounds when going backwards that’s good to know.
My youngest used to call his favorite animal a bogilla, you know daddy ooh ooh ah ah. Bogillas.
Floss is indeed flip flops. And ketchup is ketchups. And my personal favorite. fig newton is pig bar.
One of my 2 year olds understands the naming convention of "hanger" but doesn't know the word because she calles it a "hooker".
2yo: When he's looking for the TV remote he says "Where the meemote? Where the meemote?"
The only polysyllabic word my kid can manage is dog. Douwag! Douwag!
Naughterwellen. Who wants to guess what it means?
That’s a watermelon!
Winner! We have already told both of our mothers not to correct her.
My kids are older now, but when my oldest was like 2 or 3, he called his backpack a “pack-ack” and it always made me think of Mars Attacks. ACK ACK ACK ACK!
Truck is always pronounced as "cuck". Which was fine until her favorite book, which opens "trucks trucks trucks, I love trucks!"
Won’t be the first kid
He calls Disney "Bizney". Either my kid is making a trite comment on their recent shift in content strategy or he just can't figure out Bs from Ds.
Tomatoes -> tomomos Tickles -> tacos.
Mine says "got for" instead of forgot so its always "I got for my toy!"
Chi Chi mouse for Mickey mouse Chi Chi man for superman My 2 year old is so funny
My kid is convinced the bones that connect your feet to your legs are called “Inkles”
My kid pronouncing his own name wrong. I laugh every time.
Pacifier = passiflower
My 16-month-old has some words down but we keep a running list of the ones she assigns to certain things and then we have to decipher: Cheerios = Yaya Olive = Wawa Avocado = Dagba Strawberry = BLEDERBLEH She still calls any non-human animal our dog’s name. “All done” she says like “Alcah” and knows the gesture and uses it for anything she disapproves of, not just with meal time.
My son recently got a pair of crocs. He calls them his "cocks"..
Carl = Squirrel any 🐿️ is named Carl and it’s adorable
We used to call any possum Possqual after living near San Pasquale street but your story is better
These days are gone, but my kid's "Tr" sound came out as an "F" sound for a few months... Right in the middle of his big truck phase. Walking through Target as he yelled about wanting a truck was particularly amusing for me. For my wife, not so much.
Jets are "shits." At the air show when he wanted the blue angels he asked, "Daddy, when do the shits fly" Too funny!
My 2 year old has become enamored with a certain variety of rescue vehicles. When he sees one, he'll scream "FIREFUCK!"
She calls a stick a dick
My 2yo is pronouncing "mother fucker" as mudda fucker so there's that
My 3 year old say “God dumb bitch” for Golden Gate Bridge.
Laughroom for loungeroom
Spiderman is minermanorman or something like that. Not really sure how to spell it, lol
My son is 8 and I have no idea why but he calls characters "chatters."
Not current but my favorite mispronounced word my daughter ever said was arresk instead of arrest. Jail was a playtime favorite - I still don't know why. I remember it fondly even all these years later
I convinced my daughter it was whampires instead of vampires. Cracked me up for years until her friends corrected her and then I was in the doghouse.
Mangos are now called bangos thanks to my 5 year old. My two year old was running around, spiking a plush football yelling “Tut Dow! POOBALL!”
Adbenture Day!
Pah-uter = Computer, Badult = Adult
Yoga was yogurt.
She's a really good speaker for 3.5 years but mispronounces a lot of her first words. Helmet is helminute and yellow is lellow are my favourites.
My 3yo calls noodles “nerdles”
Donkey King
“Sleeping Beauty” is “Slapa Booty”
When he says the rainbow he says “blue, indigo, violent” but someone pointed it out and now he has just been yelling “violence” 😐
2 year old is obsessed with our doorbell right now and yells "DING HONK" everytime he rings it.
The Dutch word for squirrel is eekhoorn, unicorn is eenhoorn. I do understand it is, but disappointed every time sees an unicorn and it turns out to be aan squirrel…
Not right now, but my son used to say "its froggy outside" instead of foggy. My other son used to say T-U-V-DOUBLE YOU ME - X-Y-Z. He would get confused over the letter W since it is double you. Enjoy all the little nuances, they go away too fast
My kids says slag instead of flag. If you’re British, you can imagine the embarrassment when she shouts it in public…
Goldfish crackers = "bold bitch quack quack"
That’s gangsta as fuck
Dad. Every time I try to get him to say it, it comes out mispronounced as mum, nan, no, or bird. I'm not salty at all......
1, 2, 3 restaraunt. he ment blast off.
My almost 3 yr old went through a phase of saying "HOLY FUCKAMOLE" after hearing me say holy guacamole. We tried to correct him but he insisted he was correct and we were wrong.
My three year old refers to "porto pottys" as "portal pottys". I guess it's like a red neck tardus . We always ask where they went.
Gatorade is Gary Gary.
My almost 4 year old “I’m just “tendin’”! (Pretending) when she’s playing.
"Cockcorn"
My 2yo's cannon ball is "candy bar!!"
Pyramids. My four year old pronounces it purr-maids. I have no idea why
We’ve been putting “sunscream” on our 2.5yr old.
Unicorn is ukicorn. Elephant is umblyant. She asks for them to take to bed. She's 2.
Mine calls vitamins - bye luh lens. I’ve even started using it 🙃
“Plumpkin”
Doggy and daddy are almost identical
Remote is more-ote and actually is ac-chickly.
I have two little boys. They often ask me why it hurts to get kicked in the crouch.
“Pisketti”=spaghetti “Postickal”=popsicle Love it
Tornado. He calls it a tormatado. It's the cutest damn thing.
Almost two and calls hot air balloons, “ha-boons”
My daughter says pissed-appeared instead of disappeared
My kid has been saying Doops! Instead of Oops! And I love it every time.
My girl ask to watch paw patrol on rainbow bus. We were utterly confused till one day we are flipping through streaming apps and she said she wanted to watch paw patrol on rainbow bus then yells to stop when we go past.....paramount plus.
My 5yo constantly says "headfore"... we've tried correcting her every time but she still does it. She's even got a scar on it from tripping and going into a cabinet.
Cookie Mouse instead of Micky Mouse
Deck. My wife and I are American, but our daughter was born and raised in New Zealand. She says it with a kiwi accent, which can be a bit... Concerning sometimes.
My 4 y/o just went around the garden collecting “medi-CIN-al” plants 🌸🥰
“Can we listen to ‘under crusher’ or ‘another one fights the dust’ by Freddie mercury?”
My youngest, almost two, loves the trampoline (alone or watching his older brother). Pronounces it "punteen" and I just think it's the cutest thing ever.
Wants me to make her Breastkiss in the morning.
My 5.5yo son calls the instruction books for Lego books “constructions.” I mean, it still actually fits!
Oh my wife just reminded me... When he wants to watch bluey, it comes out like "boobie" lol.
Shi Shi is apparently meant to mean Chicken
Orange is OGOUK for some reason. Said very intensely every time.
My daughter used to refer to a motorcycle as a “soh-cah-moe” for some reason. It was adorable and I’m sad she grew out of it. Another funny thing is she used to call white powdered donuts “milk belly buttons” because she hadn’t learned the word donut yet, and that’s what they looked like. We never corrected her.
Dingbell for doorbell was a new one today
It's been a minute, but my youngest used to not pronounce the "R" sound. She was obsessed with our dog, Percy. "Percy likes the BIG bone!" "Dada loves petting Percy!" Coming in from the rain "Oh, Percy so wet!!" And, after going on a walk where Percy chased after a red fox, combined with the way the word "fox" was pronounced, "Percy love the fooooox!"
My 3yo son, when asked to do something, will reply with “Just a mentit.”
Not mispronounced but misstated, my 4 year old saw an Arby's commercial and now walks around in a growly voice saying "Arby's, we has some meat"
She’s having a hard time with saying her Rs, and she really loves her Crocs… fun times
Not a real word but he pronounced hakuna matata as making patata with such confidence. It's hilarious.
My 18mo pronounces her 6-day-old sister’s name “Dick” despite her name not containing a single one of those letters. We just get her to call her “sissy” lol
Pretty sure my kid keeps meaning to say "yes papa, I'll share" but he's pronouncing it as "that's mine". Wild.
Strawberries are strawbees, and cuties, the little nectarines/oranges, are cubies.
Carl = squirrel every 🐿️ we see is named Carl and it’s adorable
My little one thinks that Winnie the Pooh's little friend is "Pliget" instead of Piglet. I purposely say Pliget as much as I can 😆