Early Childhood Mispronunciations?

Question

Did your parents or older sibs ever tell you how you mispronounced words or names as a toddler?

What were they? How'd you say em?

Answer 1

My grandma's name is Maria.
I tried to say it, but it came out as Mamima.
Everyone began to call her that.
Not just my cousins, the adults too.
The whole family and everyone we had connections with.

It stuck.
Over 14-15 years later, /everyone/ still calls her Mamima, and she has me to thank... haha.

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Answer 2

My parents are immigrants so they don't really speak English well, so they taught me how to pronounce my last name wrong... haha. I didn't figure it out till I was 7. I pronounced it with a "i" instead on a "e"

*edit: Machpen: I did that too!

I think alot of people did that, thats how it goes in the song

Answer 3

it is complicated to maintain long-term suggestions in the previous the age of three. the theory of time to a newborn differs from that of an person. My earliest reminiscence is whilst i became 4 years previous, and that i became walking contained in the lake on the community park. A stranger grabbed me and took me to the police station the place I performed Mr. Potato Head and ate donuts until eventually my mom freaked out and picked me up.

Answer 4

I had two kinda-sorta mispronunciations. Well, one was by choice, and the other was more of a misidentification, but I'll share anyway:

Helicopter was hecktacopter, because I was not allowed to say "hell".

A squirrel was a "moose".

Answer 5

I used to call cinnamon "cinnaminifin" which caused my aunt great stress once - she thought I was asking for acetominiphen (at three).

My girlfriend's son has the best, though. At two, he couldn't say firetruck. He's sitting in church when one rolled by, sirens going - and he blurts out (loudly, of course, because he's two) "MAMA, LOOK! FIREF*CK!!!"

Oops. :)

Answer 6

Si-Sa for my sister Lisa.
My niece says Badaniel for Nathaniel.

Answer 7

Water = Wagna
Potato Chips - Butee bahs
Grandma = Dub-a-dee (dont ask me where that came from)
Tree= Twee
Blanket = Daboojja

There is no real spelling of these made up words, I spelled them like I said them....so I hear. :-)

Answer 8

Any word that began with an R, i pronounced with a W.
Eg Round : i'd say "wound"

Answer 9

Yellow - Lellow

that's the only one of mine I can remember

but my buddy used to say
Glava instead of lava
and helicLopter instead of helicopter

Answer 10

Daddy!
Yarry won't yet me swing!
Was the most hilarious one I ever did to the adults. Swapping out Y's for L's was mine.