Does your child have any words or phrases you hate to have to correct, because it's so cute or funny?

Question

When my oldest son was a baby, he made up his own language, dubbed Cameronese. He had frequent ear infections that resulted in a partial hearing loss, causing him to only hear a garbled version of what we were saying, so all of his words were kind of warped versions of real words.

He's now six, but still quite a bit behind in the language development.

Anyway, I know I have to correct words and phrases he says improperly, because if I don't, his speech and vocabulary won't improve much, but I hate to have to do it.

It just cracks me up to hear him talking about a "patteran" (pattern), "cookies" (pronounced with the "oo" sound in "boom"), or when he tells me he wants to "take a haircut" (I can see where he got it from, "get" and "take" are often interchangable).

Don't worry, I do correct him so he can learn to speak correctly, but it breaks my heart a little each time he remembers and says it correctly the first time.

LOL

nowin: my cousins' other grandfather is known as "Grumpy", for the same reason.

I forgot to mention, my four-year-old loves "chicken someghetti"

Shojo: My kids talk a little like that, too. We live in the south, and my son says that he "needs to take a dress" in the morning.

It was then that I realized, he was hearing me say "It's time to get dressed" with a southern accent. It was coming out "It's time ta get dressed."

Ta get dressed ---> take a dress

They also have trouble with breakfast ("beffus"). And "yellow" is hilarious. My older son will get really annoyed with his brother and try to correct him. Once he just had enough, so he looked at his brother and said "NO, Colin! It's not yewwoh, it's lello!"

Jenifer: You are correct. It's a purely northeast Texas pronunciation of the word "wash." I live in the Arklatex area, and it drove me CRAZY when my grandmother would talk about "warshing" something!

Squeaker: Yes, he's in speech therapy at school and doing really well. Every day it seems we notice one of "his words" being replaced with the correct version.

Right now, he's mainly having trouble with words in the past tense. He'll talk about how he "goed" (went) somewhere, or how he "beed" good at school (we would tell him to "be good," so he just added the "d" at the end and thinks he "beed good")

Answer 1

My son is 2 1/2 and he has trouble saying horse, it usually sounds like wh*re. We're working on saying it properly, but for now he calls them colts or foals.

Answer 2

My almost 4 year old daughter, who has Autism and moderate mental retardation, is only just beginning to talk in short sentences. She'll say "my want dinner weddy" or "my want bekkis (breakfast)" Everything is a hot dog. One day she was eating her kunch at her table in the living room, and the kitten jumped up. She screamed! She said (so far the very longest sentence she's ever managed) "no cawwie (callie) dat my dinner weddy!" It's also hilarious trying to get her to say yellow. She'll say wellow, and when we try to get her to say the y sound, she'll say "yuwellow" or "lello". I'm just glad she's talking some, I'm not too concerned with correcting her grammar yet.

Answer 3

Not yet, cuz he's only one and not doing much talking yet...

But so far, I love it that he goes "oooooooooohhh" everytime he does something wrong. (Like when kids say "ooooooohhhh you're in trouble...") He has started throwing things on the floor just so he can say it.

He makes a lot of sounds and makes up words but not much else beyond "mama" "dada" and "baba".

But the best made up thing I said as a kid was

"shuka milk on milk" - for chocolate milk

Answer 4

I have twin girls that are 4.. both are very mildly autistic. One of them the other day kept telling me she wanted some "Doderent". it took me two days to realize she was saying Deoderant. I laughed for hours..my other daughter says "to" where it should be at. she told me "I so mad to you mommy: The same daughter told me on Halloween when she saw a "scary: man Mommy, that guy freaks me out"..Have no idea where she heard that one!!

This topic reminds me of the episode of "full House" Where Setphine and Harry get "married" and the friend that is marring them says "we are gathered here today to join Stephanie and Harry in holy matress money" (instead of holy matramony) too funny!!!!

Answer 5

Well, when I was a child I used to say UNGIN, instead of ONION.... every now and then I still slip up and say it.

My father used to say "WARSH" which always got on my nerves. I really think it's an East Texas thing.

Answer 6

instead of saying excuse me my daughter says Me scuse and ama for bananas and my cousin is Amy and she calls her Mamy which is stuck since i now know she can say Amy she just chooses to say Mamy

my daughter is 3 and still speaks in Caitlinese but she will be starting speech therapy by thanksgiving have you thought about that for your son (if he's not already there of course)
most public schools offer it free

Answer 7

My son who is 8 now used to call Popsicle's "potstickles".
I've finally gotten him to stop but my 4 year old daughter picked up the habit and still does it.
"Mommy, can me and brother have a potstickle?" It's too cute!

Answer 8

When my now 12 year old was little he called the kitchen the "chicken" and he couldn't say his name (Nicholas) so he called him self "giggiss" and my now 7 year old used to tell people his name was "pay-wood" and his name is Caleb... it was cute.

Oh, I remembered another one, my oldest used to call sandwiches "bam-b*tches" and we were grocery shopping (bread was the "b*tch" part of the sandwich) and he started yelling "b*tch" while we were in the bread isle... ohhh, the looks I got...

Answer 9

You the commercials for 'Cookie Crisp Cereal? well, my four year old loves the ceareal and the commercials. Every morning I ask her what she wants for breakfast, and she says, (like the dog in the commercial) "Coooooookie Crisp!" It's so funny, she also says 'pumpikin' and 'Harry Poppeteer'.
My eight year old niece says, 'Bajeesus"

Answer 10

My 24 month old says, "ghosk" for ghost. I just love how he so clearly enunciates the "k" on the end. Sadly, by next Halloween I'm sure he'll be saying "ghost."