The cute mispronunciation thread

jewbacca · **Posted:** Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:11 am

betect=protect

"Mommy, I have to betect Fini from monsters. That's why I'm in her room."

coldandsleepy · **Posted:** Wed Jul 06, 2011 4:53 pm

I'm not sure this is cute, and it's definitely not classy, but it does make me laugh:

The Emperor is obsessed with clocks, but he is still learning to pronounce Ls. So when he wants, say, our alarm clock, he starts shouting "cork! cork! cork!"

jewbacca · **Posted:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 8:36 am

gypsies=jippies

used in a sentence: "That woman is singing about jippies, right?" upon hearing Stevie Nicks.

keen_on_quinoa · **Posted:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:32 pm

Zola got a leap pad thing a mig from her grandparents for her birthday. I told her it was like a little computer, so now she keeps asking me, "Where's my lil' cuter?"
And she just told Felix, "Look! There's a honey bird!" (It was a hummingbird).

bodhi · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:18 am

lately it's been these:
kyew-puter = computer
potato = tomato
dorasplorer = dora the explorer
chlockit = chocolate

jewbacca · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:10 am

patician=magician

Used in a sentence: "Mommy, how did the patician make that pumpkin disappear?"

Audrey · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:08 pm **Posts:** 1204

Dahlia has effectively changed 2 of our cats' names - Hoya is now HoHo (which is fitting because he is fat and black and white) and Sam is now Dan.

flavabean · **Joined:** Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:48 pm **Posts:** 1329

Aww! We have Ra-Ra (Rosco) and Bo-Bo (Bilbo) for our cats.

littlebird · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:26 pm

thomas is midas, kitty is kihhkihh (said with plenty of spittle), spoon is poon (hehe), daddy is DAAAVE! (even more heheh, guess why she thinks that!), and apple is abowt.

god i love talking.

butterbobbin · **Posted:** Wed Aug 22, 2012 9:41 pm

Molly says cherry-o for cherry. This pronunciation has carried over to berry (berry-o) and sorry (sorry-o).

kohlby · **Joined:** Sun Aug 26, 2012 7:55 pm **Posts:** 2

"Best-feeds" to mean "breastfeeds" or nursing is the one I can't bring myself to correct him on.

Last night I thought he said "I want water and drink" but he really said "I want Deigo" (stuffed animal) so there's a bit more work needed on pronounciation here.

littlebird · **Posted:** Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:31 pm

vitamin: bite-a-min

all colours are followed by one. so we have " the orange one shirt" " the red one shoes" etc etc

tomorrow: ah-moro-say (??)
water: riter (but specifically water to drink... water in the bath, water on the ground, water in the sink is all wawa)

FootFace · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:25 pm

heathenmama wrote:

I love all of these...so cute, I miss those days.

My daughter said reneckognize instead of recognize and they both said piddow, yeddow, etc. I guess L's in the middle are hard. They both still say patterin and satterin instead of pattern and Saturn, and they are nine and twelve. This is the only mispronunciation that is still hanging on. I'm not sure if they can't say them correctly or if it's just habit by now.

When TRS was a little guy—and totally into trains—he pronounced Norfolk Southern as (something like) nawfok suz-uh-win.

Pinko · **Joined:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:42 pm **Posts:** 1661

Inez has started saying "thank you" and it sounds like "kunk nu." She says kuh-kuh for woodpecker and something that sounds a lot like Bilbao for blue jay.

Pinko · **Joined:** Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:42 pm **Posts:** 1661

Oh, and she says huck for hug and it's super cute because she always says it with this upward inflection. "Huck?"

jewbacca · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:52 am

goggles=gobbles
lawnmower=mowlawner

lizlemon · **Joined:** Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:15 pm **Posts:** 35

Oh how I love this thread!

She can't pronounce the "sk" sound, so she replaces it with "h,"
scoop = hoop
school = hool
squirrel = huwul

hazel = pazel (I can't get enough of her telling me that I have pazel eyes)

bodhi · **Posted:** Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:19 pm

Iz can't grasp the "rl" sounds in words like "girl" or "world" or "squirrel". He says "guh-luh", "woo-lud", and "squoo-luh". It's so cute. And he's such a good sport about it, because he knows it makes us laugh, so he'll repeat it for us!

poopiebitch · **Posted:** Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:15 am

Poopiebaby calls pumpkins 'punkums', and since pumpkins are everywhere this time of year, he's saying it all the time.

"Mummy, punkums! More punkums! BIG punkums! One, two, free, four, five punkums!"

It cracks me up every time.

mittenmacher · **Posted:** Tue Nov 06, 2012 7:30 pm

Almost everything Walter says is mispronounced, but my current favorites are:

elephant: eff-fen-eh
finished: shin-eh
firefighter: fa-FIE

butterbobbin · **Posted:** Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:40 pm

bodhi wrote:

potato = tomato

Molly says this too! Cracks me up.

poopiebitch · **Posted:** Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:13 am

Airplaneport.

paprikapapaya · **Posted:** Sun Nov 18, 2012 10:17 am

Awwww. My now 23 year old brother used to say "racamoni" for "macaroni".

Kelly · **Posted:** Sat Nov 24, 2012 3:57 pm

Silas has been calling Mitt Romney "Zit Zombie" since early on in the election and is still doing it. In the beginning, we tried to correct him, now we find reasons to mention Mitt's name just to encourage him.

mittenmacher · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:50 am

Barack Obama= Bobo Mama

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