Mispronounced words my kids say that I do not correct…
“Aren’t you going to correct him?”
I’m sure, at one point or another, we’ve all been asked this question. When you’re sitting at a restaurant, and the waitress asks your 4 year old what he would like, and he replies “sal-ars”, you’re forced to make that on-the-spot-decision: do I correct him, or do I tell her what he meant?
To me, there’s nothing cuter than toddler lingo. Even Braxton, at 6 years old, has a few words up his sleeve that we don’t correct!
When Kylie was little, the cutest thing ever was when she wanted milk. Nulnk? She’d ask. We never corrected her, just like we really don’t correct the boys. Why?
They’re not going to go to
college calling a pacifier a “fie”.
You may disagree. That’s fine. You’re entitled to your opinion, and you’re most certainly allowed to raise your children the way you’d like! I’m cool with that.
Most of the time, when my kidlets mispronounce a word, I get them to repeat it at least once or twice more, just to make sure I was hearing them correctly – or is it incorrectly? Whatever, the point is, there are some things that don’t last a lifetime, and mispronunciations are usually one of those things!
Common mispronounced words in the Johnston Home.
Gove (gahv) The past tense of give. – I didn’t take it from him, Hawk gove it to me!
Beliv (be-liv) Mixture of belong and live. – The trains do not beliv in the superhero toy box.
Eggcorn (egg-corn) Acorn. – The squirrel didn’t take the eggcorns off the fence.
Generful Greebus (gener-full gree-bus) General Grievous, Star Wars. – Generful Greebus has all those lightsabers!
Bampire (bam-pie-er) Vampire. – Ooooo… Mom’s watching Bampire Diaries!
To prove that they WILL grow out of these, here are some words that are now FORMERLY mispronounced!
Nulnk (nulnk) Milk. – More nulnk, please.
Cuck Cuck (kuk kuk) Sucker aka Pacifier. – Where cuck cuck go?
Fie (fie) Pacifier. – Give him his fie so he’ll be quiet!
Pie (pie) Pacifier. – Wheres my pie?
Clof Byper (clof bie-per) Cloth Diaper. – Hawk took off his clof byper!
Darf, Dark (darf, dark) Both variations of Darth. – I am Darf Maul! I am Dark Sidious.
Light Saver (lite sav-er) Lightsaber. – I am Darf Maul and I have a red light saver!
I’m sure there are so many more! What are some mispronunciations around your house that you refuse to correct??
MOST kids are going to grow out of it. I’m not saying let them actually go off into the real word mispronouncing words.
I mean, really, my kids know to correctly pronounce the word nunchucks! There are some seasoned actors who still say numchucks on camera – we just heard one last night (in the clip linked, they pronounce it correctly, however, Booth says it wrong later!!! You can always correct them later when it’s more embarrassing than cute!
LOL! Love it! Peyton calls his ‘cars/trucks’ “Wee’s” LOL
The funny thing is is that we all (our little family) now calls cars ‘wees’ instead of car/truck/van 🙂
OH definitely! Their speak becomes our speak!
My little cousin says every time she sees our cat “TITTY” (instead of kitty..lol)
Of course she sees us laughing so she keeps on repeating it 🙂
That would be something my mom would be like… “CORRECT IT NOW!” and i’d just laugh! 🙂 too cute!
That’s so funny. When my oldest son was little he used to hop around yelling, “Frog, frog, frog…) Only his “frog” sounded more like the “F” word. The looks we got from people! It was hillarious.
Haha – love the eggcorn especially.
When she was little my sister used to call bananas “numma numma nahs” because she knew there was more to it that the usual ‘nahna’…
Hahaha! That’s so cute!!!! 🙂
Don’t you know… He’s Buzz Life-year! And on good days, he’s Buzz Light-gear!
Jeebra – (Zebra) He used to say Lee-ra for zebra.
Peacock used to be Cock-cock.
Haha, he was Buzz Light-gear here too!
Actually, it was never woody or buzz.. alone.. it was just one character, attached at the hip, I guess.. named… Woody-n-Buzz! 🙂
Oh my how did I miss this. HAHA
Sammie used to call commercials mercicals and then commercicals
Grace insists that softball gloves are bats and when I am ironing she says I am sewing.
Sammie used to call pork chops Bark because she said they looked like bark on a tree. After she started calling it bark she actually started eating it so we called any meat, Bark. haha(yes we encouraged it)
And one of the little girls I babysit always says to me, “I hold you.” when she wants me to hold her.
Julie, the boys call mac n cheese with hotdogs in it… cheese meat. (Although braxton won’t eat mac n cheese anymore because he’s pronounced himself “allergic to cheese”.. why… we don’t know!)