Mispronunciations

[pen_grunt]

Kids say cute things. I was telling a friend about how N called "whirlpools" "whirlpuddles" and he laughed and told me I should be sure to write that down so I don't forget that she once did it.

So here are a couple of things.

For a long time, Smokey the cat was "Mosey". This was particularly amusing since she started off saying it correctly and somehow it morphed in her mind and she latched onto it. She has since reverted to the correct way.

Whirlpools are whirlpuddles.
Potholes are Popholes (not inaccurate).
Penis is "peanuts" (I struggle: Do I, as a parent, responsibly correct this to the proper terminology...or leave it be because it's too damned funny?)
Netflix is Netflakes. We have adopted this as a family, wholecloth.

She has a lot of the little kid shorthand, too, but those aren't mispronunciations as such. Vagina is 'gina, disaster is "a-zaster"

Comments

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

My nephew, Alec, called himself Ak'-el. Motorocycles were mo-akel-akels. His sister, Hannah was Hattie (My sister's name is Patti) Then one day he became serious with his pronunciations and I still called her Hattie for years.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Mo-akel-akel is about the cutest thing.

My friend's kid used to say or-gan-a-zize-ing (organizing) and they thought it was so cute they started using it and never corrected her. She was PISSED when she got into school a ways and the teacher tried to correct her and she fought back about it...only to learn she was wrong.

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

I love those! Especially Netflakes.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

We have a voice control remote, and Netflakes is close enough to be recognized as Netflix, so now we all just say Netflakes.