One moment a child might cry because a microwave ate his lunch, the next they’re spitting out words so beautiful, not even a poet could make them up…
One moment a child might cry because a microwave ate his lunch, the next they’re spitting out words so beautiful, not even a poet could make them up…
My son couldn’t say “Three Musketeers”, so instead he would call them “Free Monkey Tears”.
I still call Perogies and Sausage “Gropies and Snausage”
My son would refer to the Transformer known as Optimus Prime as Octopus Primes. Guess he saw ‘more than meets the eye.’. Also helicopters were knowns as hella-ga-dopters.
My 3 year old granddaughter called my wristwatch “Grammy’s bracelet clock.”
My son calls french fries hot croutons I will not be correcting this I love it too much
My grand kids also had great words. A remote was a marote. The first time seeing a giraffe a Boris. We still do.
My kid’s leg was tingling. He said it was “sparkling on the inside.”
Not a kid. My husband is from México. The word for toes in Spanish is “dedos de los pies,” literally “foot fingers,” so foot fingers they shall be called in our house for all eternity.
His English is excellent now, but he still calls eyebrows “eye browns.” Well, they are.
I was 5 when I learned the 16th president was NOT Arm and Hammer Lincoln, as I’d called him.
When my daughter was 3 she called things upside-down- top of the bottom😂
When my daughter was 3, she couldn’t seem to say “because”, she’d say “ca-pause”. 33 years later we still say “ca-pause”!!
Little trees (broccoli) and green beings (green beans) is how I got my friends kid to eat veggies, but my favorite of all time is, “I no no?” for I don’t know.
I used to live in a small Alaskan community called “Port Protection.” As my sisters learned to talk, they started calling it “pork-a-chicken.”
At age 3, my word for lipstick was ihick (short i)
When my daughter was small she would say “too luck” for good luck. We still say it!
My granddaughter had her own little terms for things at 2-3 years old. She called ice cream creesum and cottage cheese was snow. She referred to brussel sprouts as baby martian heads. We still use these terms.
Daughter still says “thumb toe” for big toe
My little nephew were the best with his made up words. He talked about the “shock wind” to which his mom later gathered he was referring to the lightning bolts and also when she was busy making fries he looked at her and later when he wanted fries again one day he said that he wanted the potatoes thats made in the “shooting water” as the oil shoots out while frying :D The list goes on but those were my two favourites… Clever little boy still today :)
We lived in Lincoln Park when my daughter was little…not far from a shopping area. She told people she lived in “Parking Lot, Michigan “
My cousin used to call popcorn…corn-pon.
My son at about age 4 liked to wear snug pajamas that were almost like tights. Since he would transpose the letters s-k in words, the pajamas were his “ksinny pants.”
Teaching my 5 year old about anatomy. He knew what little boys have. I asked him what little girls have. His reply was “Little boys”.
My daughter at 3 & 4 called all dogs “Puppy”. One day while driving by a dairy farm she pointed at them & said “Puppy” and l told her, “no they are cows”.
From then on she referred to them as
“puppy-cows”
my grandson says “Bnember” for remember. And “I have a dea!” for idea.
My son used to say calepitter instead of caterpillar; now caterpillar just sounds wrong to me!
My son made up the word “boop” when he was probably 2. Rhymes with book. It means, “any kind of goopy condiment/dip” — like mayo, ranch dressing, guacamole, mustard, etc. Usage: “Put some boop on it, Mama!”
My daughter says hosipal for hospital
My son two truckers were “hookers”
Correction (damned auto correct) tow trucks were “hookers”
My daughter, at 2 years, asked for square eggs for breakfast. Puzzled, I asked what that was. She said “like Daddy’s”. He likes over easy fried eggs and cut them up criss cross, making little squares. So fried eggs were square eggs until she left home.
Granddaughter had her own language….Oyetmeal and Ooonaments (Oatmeal and Ornaments)
My son said alligator for elevator, nipplecase for bra. In my own family, we said pizghetti for spaghetti and kepitch for ketchup. And for reasons unknown, my sister said “dahlias” for airplanes!
“Stop, you are under the fresh” is our 2 year olds fave.
Whenever we went on a road trip I would pack a little bag of snacks for my 2-year-old son. About half an hour into the trip one day he said: “Mummy, where’s my hungry stuff”? – he’s 25 now and still raids the fridge for hungry stuff!
My eldest son got a tiny “make a finger bigger” in a Christmas cracker when he was two (magnifying glass) – My boys are 12 years apart in years but so alike in funnies.
My youngest brother would say,”I have a ploblem.”
My older sister got me started with folks dying in the horse-spittle and going from there to the cementery by way of the funnel-home.
My maternal grandfather told us how when my sister and I were almost three, our parents took us and the grandparents to San Francisco. We were riding a beautiful cable car when we spotted a bird and pointed out the duck. Grandpa corrected us saying it was a (sea) gull. We rejected that and finally decided it was a “gull- duck.”
Instead of in the morning my nephew said “after the dark”.
My son was pushing his toy lawn mower and said “I’m lawning”.
When I was a kid, I called spaghetti “skeddies.”
My brother would say “Extrasize” instead of “exercise”. He said it made sense to him because he thought people were doing it because they were an extra size.
My 12 year old used to call hand sanitizer “hanitizer”
While babysitting for a 3 1/2 year old and his younger brother, I watched as the older one made two swords out of paper so he could fight little ‘Darth Vader’ with his “life saver”. A seriously hilarious battle!
When my goddaughter was 2 she would say “I just burped in my diaper”. When my son was little, he would say “hold you momma”
Strawbabies instead of strawberries is still used in my home because my son used to call them that. Tomatoes are red grapes and green beans are green french fries for the same reason.
When my daughter grew up she wanted to be a spiderbiter—-that would be a firefighter!
She also liked to eat yogret.
My daughter called flour “biscuit dust”. She also tried putting the “stuffing” back in our long haired Shepard every Spring when he shed
My five year old differentiates cream gravy from ranch dressing by calling one cold ranch the other hot ranch. When she did something for me I always said “I appreciate it” she started saying “Aaaapreciated”(I have a bit of a southern accent)
My niece told her older sister, “Em-a-Lee, quite being meat to me!” * she meant mean.
My cousin used to say ”hangaburger” My daughter said lellow for yellow so much, I picked it up! And her favorite lunch was ham, nis neese mayonnaise!
My 6 ye old granddaughter .. lellow for yellow, my oldest son, now 28 used to say aminals for animals and pasketti.. for spaghetti. My daughter used to call Mac m cheese Mac n sneeze. Also she called spaghetti, Sasquatch, because she hated spaghetti so we told her it was Sasquatch then she loved it. Oh one more, my granddaughter also calls alpacas, llama-chickens because when she goes to pet them they run away so they are llama-chickens.