“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!