Kids and Mispronunciations

[Rockgirl]

What's the oddest one you've heard?

I have an articulate 3-year-old dcb who started talking at an early age, and has a big vocabulary. But he can't say 'banana'! For whatever reason, he pronounces it 'fabanta'.

FABANTA!

[Unregistered]

Love fabanta!

My favs were Poe-koe-nee-no for Pinocchio and sna-wich for sandwich.

[spedmommy4]

I have a very talkative 3 year old enrolled who keeps trying to say the name of her new friend here. (Scarlett). She keeps calling her Margaret. Both girls have been a little confused this week. ::

[Blackcat31]

One of my little ones says "My daddy works at the Kleenex"
What they mean is "My daddy works at the clinic"

I have another that says "chumbers" for cucumbers and "chicken munks" for chipmunks

[Mad_Pistachio]

my Sunday School student once said, "my Dad shoots people at work." he is a troubleshooter, computer guy...
my daughter takes music lessons, and a week ago we got to "two eighths" (2 1/8-ths with dirty faces, stems, and a tail connecting them). she calls them "two Kates."
a kiddo at work kept calling potatoes "topatoes" and animals "aminals." that's probably pretty common.

[Baby Beluga]

I've had "strababa" for strawberry and "cubumbumer" for cucumber.

[Indoorvoice]

My favorite is Hoptercopter for helicopter. My one dck uses those cheap Gerber cloth diapers as her lovies. Her mom calls them britches, as in pants... Well you can guess what dcg calls them! ::::

[galaxy]

hokinut for coconut if my current favorite.

[Rockgirl]

These are great--kids are funny!

[wonderfullisa]

A newly-3yo was telling me how her daddy said she is good at fishing.
However, what came out starting with a B! It took me quite a while to figure that one out.

[Pepperth]

My 2 year old says pumpkin with an "f" instead of a "P"and leaves out the "Mk" when he says it. My older boy used to say "key-ot-nee" milk for chocolate milk. He was a late talker so it was music to my ears.

[e.j.]

If any of my current dc parents happen to read this, it will out me but....I have one dcg who calls ketchup "chupper" and one dcb who calls Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty "Mellissa-fant". When my dd was little, she used to call sweet potatoes "sweet buttatoes". I didn't even pick up on it, though, until she brought home a school assignment she had done in either kindergarten or first grade. She was asked to list her favorite foods and "sweet butt atos" was on the top of the list.

[Controlled Chaos]

These are great.

I have so many 2s right now - I can't think of anything specific but they are all very verbal and speak so sweetly in their toddler way.

I was sad when space month was over, I loved hearing the 3yo talk about "Earf" all the time. He knew all these science facts about orbits, moons, stars, could name all the planets etc so it made it extra cute he couldn't say Earth.

[delferka]

Miss ****ie instead of Miss Kathie!!!!!!::

[MotherNature]

My son had the cutest words around 2- foofs for shoes, modasho for motorcycle, and our favourite- buddlewozer for bulldozer.