The cute mispronunciation thread

keen_on_quinoa · **Posted:** Mon May 23, 2011 10:48 pm

Add your kid's or kids' cute past or present mispronunciations here!

Zola's include:
upsy-daisy = upside down
daddy lion = dandelion
sketti = spaghetti

Felix's include:
hairplane = airplane
lawn motor = lawnmower (though I swear the first time he tried to say it he pronounced it "mind blower")

Momo · **Posted:** Mon May 23, 2011 11:13 pm

Those are adorable!!

Crantastic · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:24 pm **Posts:** 185

Uli says muse-gick for music, which I love. Also:

Meef = mischa (our cat)
For the longest time Puh = Ruby ( our dog)
Oooterus= uterus
Tella = Isabella (an older girl in the neighborhood)

Little speak is adorable!

ismloveyoubobbybrown · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 6:27 am

instead of delicious felix says pah-licious.

Kiddo · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 7:07 am

Dax mixes up a lot of combination words, like "box juice".
Capplebots= bottlecaps
Coomed = past tense of "come" (as in "Come here!" "Mommy, I coomed!")

littlechickadee · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 7:31 am

jackson has a couple:
hiccup truck = pickup truck
alligator = elevator

and he calls his sister "baby yiya" (baby olivia)

jewbacca · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 8:53 am

Crantastic wrote:

Uli says muse-gick for music, which I love. Also:

Meef = mischa (our cat)
For the longest time Puh = Ruby ( our dog)
Oooterus= uterus
Tella = Isabella (an older girl in the neighborhood)

Little speak is adorable!

blasto also says muse-gick for music! that's awesome!

resternaut=restaurant
indybapoduhlis=indianapolis
bloomingtown=bloomington
octerppuss=octopus

Sra. Nooch · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 9:18 am

Ophelia just broke her speaking shell about a month ago. It's the dream I've been having of a speaking child come true. Of course, now her two-year molars are coming in.
"Guck guck" for "knock knock."
"Grandma" for Mama. Why?!
"Bat pat" for backpack.

refinnej · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 9:25 am

One of my nanny munchkins still argues with me (age 3 1/2) that the overhang on a nearby building is called a "yawning" (as opposed to "awning")

bekki · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 9:26 am

I'm just kitten = I'm just kiddin'

ijustdiedinside · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:43 pm **Posts:** 8526

I got into a debate with a 2 year old once who insisted that banana was panana and every time i would say "it's BUH-nana" she would crack up and roll her eyes and me and say "PUH-nana!"

coldandsleepy · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 10:46 am

I mentioned this in another thread, but the Emperor calls bananas "mama".

My favorite of his mispronunciations is "buggy" for (straw)berry.

kfad · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 10:53 am

This was a long time ago. But my favorite from my youndest was "bah-cide" for decide. As in "you bah-cide" anytime anyone asked her what she wanted to eat.

bap · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 11:34 am

One of the two year olds in my class says hellocopter for helicopter, which I find extremely adorable everytime.

Una · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 11:43 am

lullo try angle = yellow triangle. (she pronounces triangle as two words)
lub = love
cucky = ducky
deedees = boobies

Axel Foley · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 12:47 pm

My son says, "I mam" for "I am," which just cracks me up. "Henry, are you ready to go to school?" "I mam!"

Butternut · **Joined:** Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:13 pm **Posts:** 1587

One of my students told me he loved to ride in lemonzines to the airport.

Meccabell · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 3:38 pm

These are from forever ago because my first is 10 now but my favorites were

LemoLade for Lemonade

Kabone for our boxer Kapone

and my favorite:

Uncle Retta for our Aunt Loretta who always answered very graciously

Oh how I miss those days

Morgyn · **Posted:** Tue May 24, 2011 5:35 pm

I once had a kid at daycare who pronounced "dump truck" as "dumb-fuck". We got him to say it allllll the time and it never got old.

celyn · **Joined:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:40 pm **Posts:** 2059

Butternut wrote:

One of my students told me he loved to ride in lemonzines to the airport.

This one slays me.

Millenijen · **Joined:** Sun Nov 21, 2010 1:45 pm **Posts:** 61

I don't know if this is "cute" perse but my 2 yo son says something close to the other "F word" for fart. It could also sound like he is saying fox and that is sort of cute.

iloveheeze · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:28 pm **Posts:** 66

Pinano = piano
persect = perfect
canny = candy
'seum = museum
'loon = balloon
'roni-cheese = mac n cheese

Is it wrong that I never want to hear her say piano correctly because it's so damn cute when she says "pinano"?

monkeytoes · **Posted:** Wed May 25, 2011 1:10 am

Sra. Nooch wrote:

"Bat pat" for backpack.

My friend's little boy used to pronounce his K's and hard C's as T's as well, so I was Teer-stin and my sister (Karin) was Teer-stin-Tarin (we think he was trying to say Kirstin's Karin as though she belonged to me.) He's 14 now and I miss being Teer-stin. Also, when he wanted to watch "A Bug's Life" he'd ask for a Bud Lite, Mommy, a Bud Lite! which was hilarious.

My nephew used to pronounce I as my. "Yes, my do want to get hit by a car, Auntie!" (after I told him we couldn't play in the street because he didn't want to get hit by a car, obvs.)

And when I was little (can I nominate myself for a cute-ism, or is that pathetic?) I couldn't say my own name so I referred to myself as Churchin. My older siblings still call me that sometimes.

Kelly · **Posted:** Wed May 25, 2011 5:49 am

Sra. Nooch wrote:

Ophelia just broke her speaking shell about a month ago. It's the dream I've been having of a speaking child come true.

Yay, Ophelia!

❀madam dahlia❀ · **Posted:** Wed May 25, 2011 5:50 am

my son told me "you're the beaufululest girl in the world mummy" beaufulul cracks me up every time i hear it.

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