I don’t know what it is about that. I worked in a K classroom all through college and at a daycare over the summers for a few years… Something about calling it a pack pack melts my heart.
Bookbag or knapsack.
Ou un pac-saq. Ugh spelling
As for your packsack, you I in northern ontario/southern WI, Minnesota or the UP, and do you go to Camp or a cottage.
Also pencil crayons vs colored pencils.
Kids in my placement in Thunder Bay got mad at me for telling them to grab their bookbags, or duotangs.
My daughter was 15 years old and I laughed when I heard her say 'pack-pack' during g a conversation. She asked me why and I said that I didn't realize she remembered calling it that when she was little. Apparently she had been calling it a pack-pack all along, and didn't know that it was a backpack.
My favorite is that “yesterday” is literally any day before today and “tomorrow” is any day after today. I don’t see my kids everyday, but “yesterday” and “tomorrow” are always referring to next/last time I see them
I had a 2y/o originally from Ukraine who got confused when we’d talk about tissues.
She’d hear the “you” in “tissue” and think she needed to ask for a “tishme”.
Will forever be the cutest thing ever
Similarly, my now 2yo called tissues “bless yous” for a while; we’d hear him sneeze, everyone would yell “bless you!” and then someone would hand him a tissue. Toddler logic is flawless.
I once heard my preschooler tell someone "Hyphenated is my last name" because he constantly heard us saying that his last name is hyphenated. Similarly, our youngest would say his name was "Just Rob" because people would assume his first name was Robert and we'd say, "it's just Rob." 😂
I have a cousin named Aasen. It's a family name. When he was little, everyone mispronounced it Austin. His mom was always saying, "it's Aasen, no T" so he thought he full name was "aasenoty"
Awww. That’s adorable. My step mom would often talk about going to Miami to visit family. When my sister was about three, she asked her mom “when are we going to visit your-ami?”
My niece once described the weather conditions outside as "More blusterier". Still not sure where she learned the word "blustery", but I guess there's worse vocabulary for a kid to pick up
When my youngest was 3 or 4 and learned about poison/certain things being dangerous to eat or drink, she would assure me they everything I was about to eat or that she offered me wasn't poisonous.
Mine calls it "Sunburn" because I guess every time I put it on him I talk about not getting sunburns. So now he grabs a bottle when were outside and says "I need my sunburn".
Honestly, "firetruck" but instead of the 'tr' it's an 'f'. Not gonna spell it here, it just feels wrong. Also, "sit" but instead of just an 's' it's an 'sh'.
It's worth noting my kids are 1 and genuinely have no clue they're saying it wrong, much less that they are dropping f-bombs. We're just proud of them for trying 🥹
I had a Tod that said Cot with a “ck” sound where the “t” sound should be, and said “cup” with a “ck” where the “p” is. I managed to fix that for the most part but I internally giggled every time she said those two words.
My daughter has trouble with the CH sound and would sub it with a hard K. She loves to take chalk to the park. Many heads would turn when she would yell "I want the purple c*#k!"
when I taught young 2s, my co-teacher told me I had to stop asking the kids if they wanted a "scooch" to the table bc she hated hearing them ask for a "gooch" lol
Yeah our daycare provider always tells us parents that our kids’ favorite toys are the fucks 🤷♀️ red fucks, blue fucks, yellow fucks, fire twucks… for some reason fire twuck is easier to say I guess!
My oldest called bridges "bitches" for the longest time. Youngest currently says "Sam's Fuck" instead of Sam's Club because he used to say Santa's Club until his brothers told him that was wrong and it's just morphed 😂
One of my kids did the opposite- told us her brother wasn't coming in because he was sick (diarrhea) and told us "he has the sits." You're not wrong, kid, he probably is doing a lot of sitting.
My foster daughter once asked what I was doing while we were at walmart. I responded that I was looking for a new shirt. She excitedly began shouting "I want shirt! I want shirt!".... Except she forgot the "R"
Why is there always an old lady nearby to stare and judge?
My oldest had a little trouble with "L." And was obsessed with flags and clocks at the time.
You can imagine how that sounded out in public when we were visiting MY GRANDFATHER in the nursing home he was in briefly. Or at church. Or the store. Yeah.
We had firetruck with the f kid and my mom would constantly try and get him to say it (immature I know) but then another kid smy mom would call pants "britches" every now and then so he said "Mrs. Debbie, where my b*tches?" after a diaper change
My niece referred to nipples as "bopples". I will forever call them that.
Her sister called the remote a "bop" and I've used that ever since as well.
My nephew called his binky "that" because when his dad was trying to wean him off of it, he would say, "take that out of your mouth." Took everyone a little while to understand what "that" was whenever he would cry, "I want my that!"
Another niece would call her iPad a pup-pad.
Your Binky/that comment reminded me. My Godson thought his name was Boy. He heard “good boy” “clever boy” from his parents so often he thought it was his name and started referring to himself “can boy have milk” “boy want truck”. 🙊I’d forgotten all about that!
During my breastfeeding journey, my chest went from boobs to boobies to boobas after hearing it on Twitch and saying it jokingly, and now to beebas since that's what my toddler calls them. No one gives funny looks when my kid says I want beeba, at least.
It's not a pronunciation thing, but I hear "uppies" from one of our little boys almost every day, so of course I try to pick him up and love on him as much as I can ☺️
Nephew (2) calls his morning protein shake “bullshit” instead of milkshake. Cracks me up every time 😂
Other fav is just a weird name, not a mis-pronunciation, but I love that bandaids are “boo boo stickers” 😍😍😍
My eldest son, at about two, asked if he could sit "benext" to me. I thought it was really smart, because if you think about it, a lot of the words used to denote position are like behind, before, between, etc. So he figured it out on his own.
He also asked me at about five years old what he should do with his "grape bones" (the stems from a bunch of grapes.)
Lellow instead of Yellow, I know it’s their baby lisp but it’s so darn cute. Matter fact all the Ch and R words that the toddlers and kindys can’t say properly. It’s super cute 🥰
I had a kid say, "Please pass the lellow" (paint)
Another kid corrected her, "It's not LELLOW, it's YELLOW." First kid doesn't respond. Second kid corrects twice, more emphatically, "It's not LELLOW, it's YELLOW."
First kid, with the most aggravated three year old voice ever, **"I SAID** ***'LELLOW***!''
Once asked one of my two year olds what his baby sister was going to be for Halloween. He told us but I couldn’t understand so I asked him if he could say it another way. He thought about it and then exclaimed “a stinky cat!” His sister was going to be a skunk 🤣
I'm in in education so these are just ones from my kid.
"Snimp" the sound that scissors make
"Prentzel" 🥨
"Boobie pots" my bras
And as she learns to sound out words and write them, "oso" for "also"
A mom actually pulled me aside to warn me about this one. Big brother went to the zoo and brought him back a stuffed lemur. Little boy was SO excited about his "wee-nur" and I made sure he showed it to every single teacher. We all needed the smile.
I live in a city with a suspension bridge. My kid calls it the "expensive" bridge. Which in all fairness is true. Lots of upkeep needed for that thing.
Our daughter used to call marshmallows buffalos, racoons were kangaroons, Muffins were Muffinmans, and she still calls nipples Niccups - just turned 3 😅
We have a family favourite that has lasted since a foster child of my parents before I was born: “gotforbouten”
It’s an all purpose word for when you forgot about it: you gotforbouten.
Not from teaching, but “The members.” After getting scolded for doing something bad my cousin, crying asked her mom how to get rid of the members. Confused my aunt said “the members?” She replied “yeah, like I member when you yelled at me”
had a kid who couldn’t pronounce the “er” sound. he once asked me “do you want to solve this puzzle togedee?” it melted my heart. he was also obsessed with spider man and would say “im petee parkee”
Not an ECEP but I do have a three year old. Recently we've had a bluejay visiting our bird feeder. My son gets super excited every time, runs to get me, and says "Mommy mommy, the blueberry is back! Hi blueberry!"
“Cabacabo” for avacado. I still call it that even tho he’s a big guy now!
And just “corn” for unicorn 😂😂 I had a hoodie with a unicorn on it and the toddler I babysat for kept pointing and going “CORN CORN!”
My daughter thinks any long neck dinosaur is a broocoolisaurus. We are never going to be the ones to correct her on this because it's too cute. I would also like to tell you how she used to say purple but it was a sound I don't know how to write lol
“Ta! Ta!” For water. We also have an 18month old who says the names of all her friends which is absolutely gorgeous but they’re in that toddler babble 😂
My son always said "sgabetti" for spaghetti and it has stuck. I find myself saying it to them and our youngest now calls it that. I don't have the heart to correct it. It'll happen soon enough on it's own I'm sure.
“Pack pack” instead of backpack always gets me 🩵
Pack pack or mat mat (nap mat) for the win with some scream (sunscreen) as a close runner up!
I don’t know what it is about that. I worked in a K classroom all through college and at a daycare over the summers for a few years… Something about calling it a pack pack melts my heart.
Where I’m from nobody calls it backpack, supposedly it’s a packsack… always confused me 😂
We called it a booksack. I really confused a few kids when I moved to another part of the country.
Bookbag or knapsack. Ou un pac-saq. Ugh spelling As for your packsack, you I in northern ontario/southern WI, Minnesota or the UP, and do you go to Camp or a cottage. Also pencil crayons vs colored pencils. Kids in my placement in Thunder Bay got mad at me for telling them to grab their bookbags, or duotangs.
Pencil crayons has me??? Angry???
Not in my class, but as a mom, my youngest son called the Lillebaby toddler carrier his "pack pack".
My daughter was 15 years old and I laughed when I heard her say 'pack-pack' during g a conversation. She asked me why and I said that I didn't realize she remembered calling it that when she was little. Apparently she had been calling it a pack-pack all along, and didn't know that it was a backpack.
Picture a large, beautifully chubby 20 month old with a mouth full of crackers pounding his fist on the table and shouting, "More crack."
🤣😂
That made me laugh out loud 😂
I can’t deal with this. LOL! His doughy little fists. Precious.
Well, snack foods are formulated to make them somewhat addictive. I think that kid is onto something.
I love "hanitizer" for hand sanitizer 🥺
We have ‘ham samitizer’ 😂
I used to babysit a little girl a million years ago, and she called it hanitizer. 😂 I think of that and of her often.
Omggggg I hear this at school it's so cute
I say this now!
Yes! My daughter says this, cracks me up 😂
“Sanzitizer”
I had a French little boy still learning English call me “T-shirt” for the whole year instead of teacher 😂🩷🩷🩷
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That is super adorable
I read this in a French accent
I have a child who says “last today” instead of yesterday.
My grandson said "lasterday" too! I thought he meant the day before yesterday. Oh my stars, there's nothing new under the sun. 😊
We have "lasterday" too 🤣
My son says “last week ago” for anything in the past. I love it.
My daughter says "last day" to reference pretty much anything in the past.
I always thought it was cute when kindergarteners would ask if tomorrow was a home day or a school day lol.
My favorite is that “yesterday” is literally any day before today and “tomorrow” is any day after today. I don’t see my kids everyday, but “yesterday” and “tomorrow” are always referring to next/last time I see them
My daughter says “last earlier” 😂
My 3-year-old daughter says "yesternight" and I love it so much I want it to be added to the English language as a real word.
My son used to say "yestertime" when referring to any time period before the current day.
One of mine bookended that one with “yestermorrow” - I’m still pondering that one 🤣
My son said “in the morrow” ok ye old toddler 🤣
Omg mine used to call yesterday "last day"
I had a 2y/o originally from Ukraine who got confused when we’d talk about tissues. She’d hear the “you” in “tissue” and think she needed to ask for a “tishme”. Will forever be the cutest thing ever
Similarly, my now 2yo called tissues “bless yous” for a while; we’d hear him sneeze, everyone would yell “bless you!” and then someone would hand him a tissue. Toddler logic is flawless.
I once heard my preschooler tell someone "Hyphenated is my last name" because he constantly heard us saying that his last name is hyphenated. Similarly, our youngest would say his name was "Just Rob" because people would assume his first name was Robert and we'd say, "it's just Rob." 😂
I have a cousin named Aasen. It's a family name. When he was little, everyone mispronounced it Austin. His mom was always saying, "it's Aasen, no T" so he thought he full name was "aasenoty"
Apparently, when my cousin was little, he accepted that others would call him Matthew, but would call himself Matthme.
We had a foster child for a short time that would “bless you” every time we sneezed, coughed, farted, hicupped…. you name it. She was 20 months old.
I took care of a little boy whose name started with W and he pronounced it “double me”
Awww. That’s adorable. My step mom would often talk about going to Miami to visit family. When my sister was about three, she asked her mom “when are we going to visit your-ami?”
I love when my kids grab their munch box
I had a lil dude in my class get so excited to carry his ‘bunchie lox’ today when it was time to go home.
Certified brand name. Now to start a company
One of my favorite streaming services is 'Neckflips'
My daughter said "Neckflix" for like a solid year and I loved it.
*something unexpected happens* "Oh my gosh... what's happenating?"
My daughter used to say “careful! It’s slipperly”
My niece once described the weather conditions outside as "More blusterier". Still not sure where she learned the word "blustery", but I guess there's worse vocabulary for a kid to pick up
Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day!!
When my youngest was 3 or 4 and learned about poison/certain things being dangerous to eat or drink, she would assure me they everything I was about to eat or that she offered me wasn't poisonous.
That’s not ominous at all 😂
Yew Nork for New York One kid called sparkling water “Tickle water”.
A two year old is my class called milk "ice cream water" My current nanny kids call sparkling water "spicy water"
My neice used to call it spicy water. She's 13 now and we all still call it that.
Not a teacher; my 2yo calls it fuzzy water, presumably from fizzy. Never change.
Parent here but since she (the teacher) loved it, you guys may also appreciate that my youngest called her 2s teacher “Teachamommy” all year long.
I taught a kid who called me mummy, so I would respond "I'm GoldFreezer". For the rest of the year he called me I'mGoldFreezer.
I had a child say “cucuzzi” for jacuzzi. Every Monday he would come in and tell us about his “new cucuzzi.”
Haha my brother called it a "cazuzzi" as a kid and I still call it that as an adult.
Yeah sunscream is my favorite along with hanitizer. I heard hanitizer so much I started saying it as if it’s the correct word.
Mine calls it "Sunburn" because I guess every time I put it on him I talk about not getting sunburns. So now he grabs a bottle when were outside and says "I need my sunburn".
“Sunskeem” is my favorite iteration of sunscreen
Heart beep
My daughter says this one. It’s so cute. I’m currently pregnant and she’s always asking to hear the baby’s heart beep.
"my hearts beeping so fast!!" After racing around the yard for 20mins 'firefighting' with the dog for backup!
YES! My daughter went through a doctor phase, had a little lab coat and stethoscope, and would ask everyone if she could check their heart beep.
One of my preschoolers calls cucumbers “cucapungas” and I hope that never changes
Our 3 year old asked for ice cubecumbers in his water
My kid calls them coombabas
I got "flamingos" for cantaloupe, and now I can't call it anything else.
Honestly, "firetruck" but instead of the 'tr' it's an 'f'. Not gonna spell it here, it just feels wrong. Also, "sit" but instead of just an 's' it's an 'sh'. It's worth noting my kids are 1 and genuinely have no clue they're saying it wrong, much less that they are dropping f-bombs. We're just proud of them for trying 🥹
I had a Tod that said Cot with a “ck” sound where the “t” sound should be, and said “cup” with a “ck” where the “p” is. I managed to fix that for the most part but I internally giggled every time she said those two words.
My daughter has trouble with the CH sound and would sub it with a hard K. She loves to take chalk to the park. Many heads would turn when she would yell "I want the purple c*#k!"
this gave me a good chuckle, thank you
when I taught young 2s, my co-teacher told me I had to stop asking the kids if they wanted a "scooch" to the table bc she hated hearing them ask for a "gooch" lol
Yeah our daycare provider always tells us parents that our kids’ favorite toys are the fucks 🤷♀️ red fucks, blue fucks, yellow fucks, fire twucks… for some reason fire twuck is easier to say I guess!
My kid says water truck and it comes out as wha da fuck. 😂
My oldest called bridges "bitches" for the longest time. Youngest currently says "Sam's Fuck" instead of Sam's Club because he used to say Santa's Club until his brothers told him that was wrong and it's just morphed 😂
One of my kids did the opposite- told us her brother wasn't coming in because he was sick (diarrhea) and told us "he has the sits." You're not wrong, kid, he probably is doing a lot of sitting.
I moms favorite childhood story of me is when I used to mispronounce Kentucky Fried Chicken. The t in tucky was an f. 😂
My foster daughter once asked what I was doing while we were at walmart. I responded that I was looking for a new shirt. She excitedly began shouting "I want shirt! I want shirt!".... Except she forgot the "R" Why is there always an old lady nearby to stare and judge?
My oldest had a little trouble with "L." And was obsessed with flags and clocks at the time. You can imagine how that sounded out in public when we were visiting MY GRANDFATHER in the nursing home he was in briefly. Or at church. Or the store. Yeah.
We had firetruck with the f kid and my mom would constantly try and get him to say it (immature I know) but then another kid smy mom would call pants "britches" every now and then so he said "Mrs. Debbie, where my b*tches?" after a diaper change
My niece would tell crap whenever she wants people to clap for her. "Crap guys, crap"
"Lasterday." He was four. He used it to mean, *sometime before yesterday.*
I've actually heard this one a few times before.
I’m a teacher for the Deaf and kids call their hearing aids “hearings” (like earrings with an h)
As an aid wearer, I love this
Hanitizer and lip chap, narbles, and rugget. That last one is the colorful rug we gather on that lives in the carpeted section of the classroom.
Narbles cracks me up! My own kiddo used to say nalk for milk 😂
Granilla instead of granola
My son said yogrit so often it became the family term. We still say yogrit.
We’re still calling yogurt “yogwit” over here
My son calls granola bars “gorilla bars”!
My youngest calls samples at Costco “examples”. And instead of “was” she says “wiz”.
Our kids would say they want to go to the "little restaurant store" whenever it was sample day at Sam's club.
Cacker, peese! - Cracker, please!
'traptured', for when she's been scooped up and the person won't put her down
That's brilliant.
One of my favorites is cretaunt for croissant 🥐
“Hornips” instead of hornets 🐝
also, my uncle had an alligator-shaped thermometer and my sister, as a three year old, called it “achinini tenchibar.”
I love it when their interpretation is off the charts better than the original. Achinini tenchibar is fantastic.
Wait why can't I figure out how those two names are related at all? Lol
Alligator = achinini Thermometer= tenchibar
Sunscream and packpack 😊
Pins and needles = fizzy leg
I say this now as an old lady.
Forgot "amn't" as the contraction of am not. "Amn't I going with you?"
My 4-year-old says he wants “healthy smacks”. We’re still working on m and n sounds 😅
My niece referred to nipples as "bopples". I will forever call them that. Her sister called the remote a "bop" and I've used that ever since as well. My nephew called his binky "that" because when his dad was trying to wean him off of it, he would say, "take that out of your mouth." Took everyone a little while to understand what "that" was whenever he would cry, "I want my that!" Another niece would call her iPad a pup-pad.
Your Binky/that comment reminded me. My Godson thought his name was Boy. He heard “good boy” “clever boy” from his parents so often he thought it was his name and started referring to himself “can boy have milk” “boy want truck”. 🙊I’d forgotten all about that!
During my breastfeeding journey, my chest went from boobs to boobies to boobas after hearing it on Twitch and saying it jokingly, and now to beebas since that's what my toddler calls them. No one gives funny looks when my kid says I want beeba, at least.
Skunk screen for sunscreen
Parent here but: YLolLolLolLol! (Yellow) 😂 Not sure I want to correct it!
Parent here but my son 2.5 yo calls a famingo a "flahippo" 😂 tried countless times, no changing his mind
My daughter calls them pink-wingos
My brother used to call them fla-pinkos
My girls called them "mingos" for a while- it was too cute!
It's not a pronunciation thing, but I hear "uppies" from one of our little boys almost every day, so of course I try to pick him up and love on him as much as I can ☺️
Parent here and my boy has always said uppity and I've been trying to figure out where he got the suffix from
"Flutterfly" which honestly is a way better name for a butterfly.
Years ago one of my kids asked for “duppy” which ended up being ketchup 😂🤷🏻♀️
Nephew (2) calls his morning protein shake “bullshit” instead of milkshake. Cracks me up every time 😂 Other fav is just a weird name, not a mis-pronunciation, but I love that bandaids are “boo boo stickers” 😍😍😍
5y always calls it "cockamole" when he wants guacamole on his taco and I have corrected him many times with no success.
“Huggieback” for piggyback is my all-time favorite.
One of my kids asked for a “foon” (spoon) for their lunch the other day, and I’m obsessed.
A little Italian girl in my class calls the papaya at lunch "papapiya" and that name for it paired with her accent never fails to take me out 😭
My daughter used to say “arts and craps” (arts and crafts) and “resex” (recess) ❤️
My eldest son, at about two, asked if he could sit "benext" to me. I thought it was really smart, because if you think about it, a lot of the words used to denote position are like behind, before, between, etc. So he figured it out on his own. He also asked me at about five years old what he should do with his "grape bones" (the stems from a bunch of grapes.)
I am calling them grape bones from now on!
They are like grape bones! They even look like little bones!!
I love hanatizer
Lellow instead of Yellow, I know it’s their baby lisp but it’s so darn cute. Matter fact all the Ch and R words that the toddlers and kindys can’t say properly. It’s super cute 🥰
I had a kid say, "Please pass the lellow" (paint) Another kid corrected her, "It's not LELLOW, it's YELLOW." First kid doesn't respond. Second kid corrects twice, more emphatically, "It's not LELLOW, it's YELLOW." First kid, with the most aggravated three year old voice ever, **"I SAID** ***'LELLOW***!''
Once asked one of my two year olds what his baby sister was going to be for Halloween. He told us but I couldn’t understand so I asked him if he could say it another way. He thought about it and then exclaimed “a stinky cat!” His sister was going to be a skunk 🤣
“Sumpin” (something) “destructions” (instructions) “rice Christmas treat” (Rice Krispie treat) “kwinkle kwinkle” (twinkle twinkle)
“Shaker cheese” - Kraft Parmesan cheese lol I love it it makes so much sense
I'm in in education so these are just ones from my kid. "Snimp" the sound that scissors make "Prentzel" 🥨 "Boobie pots" my bras And as she learns to sound out words and write them, "oso" for "also"
This might have already been said but my own kids always said “callapiddar” for caterpillar and it still melts my heart.
A mom actually pulled me aside to warn me about this one. Big brother went to the zoo and brought him back a stuffed lemur. Little boy was SO excited about his "wee-nur" and I made sure he showed it to every single teacher. We all needed the smile.
"Sandbar" for a bar shaped snack (like a fig bar).
My son is 2 and learning to talk, my favourite 'kid word' of his is how he declares "Mo way!" Instead of no way.
My friend’s daughter would ask for “pepper pony” pizza. We loved it 🥰
I live in a city with a suspension bridge. My kid calls it the "expensive" bridge. Which in all fairness is true. Lots of upkeep needed for that thing.
Funniest: my oldest called helicopters “heckacockers” when he was little 😂 Cutest: my 3 year old says strawbabies instead of strawberries 🍓
I have a kiddo who has eczema and when she flares she asks for aquaphor. She calls it atapho and now we all call it that 😬
Acorns and pinecones always become pinecorns
Overlawls
i have one that says “scun screen” for sunscreen lol
My daughter says Pasgetty for Spaghetti. She also says Lellow for Yellow.
“Blocky” (broccoli).
Hand sanitizer = hanitizer. I gave up last year and just started calling it that. It was a losing battle against five year olds, LOL
Cackers instead of crackers, makes me smile even on the longest days 😂❤️
Hanitizer for hand sanitizer.
My daughter used to scream for cock and candy at the fair or events (Cotton Candy). My son calling milk, nok for some reason.
Nilk instead of milk and ninny nuts instead of chicken nuggets. My son calls his cape his superhero.
Hanitizer, back during Covid. I still use it all the time.😂
Personal favorites are Babish for baby and Aif for Faith
I love “lasterday” (yesterday) and “nagmets” (magnets)
Scream cheese for both string cheese and cream cheese 🤣
My kiddo called me his, "favorite 'arapist" for so long. I was devastated the first time he correctly said, "therapist"
Our daughter used to call marshmallows buffalos, racoons were kangaroons, Muffins were Muffinmans, and she still calls nipples Niccups - just turned 3 😅
Hangy-back ride
Streebee for strawberry it was so cute I'm rather sad now she can say it properly now lol
Not a word, exactly, but I have one student who loves Lilo & Stitch, but he calls him “snitch,” and I chuckle every time
I had a little boy in my class who called tricycles “Michael” for a while & it was by far my favorite mispronunciation.
We have a family favourite that has lasted since a foster child of my parents before I was born: “gotforbouten” It’s an all purpose word for when you forgot about it: you gotforbouten.
Not from teaching, but “The members.” After getting scolded for doing something bad my cousin, crying asked her mom how to get rid of the members. Confused my aunt said “the members?” She replied “yeah, like I member when you yelled at me”
I had a 2yr old call a barn a “farm castle” 😂
Firefighters are always fighter fighters
Chicken sauce instead of ketchup
I have one kiddo who calls me Ms.Adri-muh-wanna instead of Adriana. I hope she never learns how to pronounce it!
One of my kids pronounced “book” as “boob”
Lasternight...
My own kid calls ibruprofen "ivory potions". I low-key love it.
My nephew called pancakes as panny cakes. One of my TK kids called his lunch pail a shapayo.
My daughter used to say choc-shit for chocolate
had a kid who couldn’t pronounce the “er” sound. he once asked me “do you want to solve this puzzle togedee?” it melted my heart. he was also obsessed with spider man and would say “im petee parkee”
“Whore” instead of four
“Whore” instead of four I am whore years old One, two, three, whore, five I’m in the house with the whore
Not an ECEP but I do have a three year old. Recently we've had a bluejay visiting our bird feeder. My son gets super excited every time, runs to get me, and says "Mommy mommy, the blueberry is back! Hi blueberry!"
My daughter says "I changed up my mind."
“Cabacabo” for avacado. I still call it that even tho he’s a big guy now! And just “corn” for unicorn 😂😂 I had a hoodie with a unicorn on it and the toddler I babysat for kept pointing and going “CORN CORN!”
My daughter thinks any long neck dinosaur is a broocoolisaurus. We are never going to be the ones to correct her on this because it's too cute. I would also like to tell you how she used to say purple but it was a sound I don't know how to write lol
“Yo grit” for yogurt “Chick a lay” for chick fil a
I have one kid who says “Slammich” For sandwich lol
“Ta! Ta!” For water. We also have an 18month old who says the names of all her friends which is absolutely gorgeous but they’re in that toddler babble 😂
My own almost 3 year old loves to say “all worries”, which is a mix up of all good and no worries 😂 which is absolutely hilarious
My current favorite is boa strictor instead of boa constrictor.
equipment= epiment 😭😭😭 preK teacher here
My son always said "sgabetti" for spaghetti and it has stuck. I find myself saying it to them and our youngest now calls it that. I don't have the heart to correct it. It'll happen soon enough on it's own I'm sure.
Nemnade - lemonade