When you were little, did you have different names for foods and things around you?

Question

For flowers- it was Pa hoos
Watermelon- Melly melly
scribbling was- Spee-a-spees

Answer 1

When I was little we called little salty fish "kilu." That is the Estonian word for sprats or anchovies. I did not know that this was not an English word until I was about 15. In Finnish they are called kilohaili and in Russian, szprots--almost like English. Germans call them sprats, same as English, I think and that is why some Estonians call them sprotts.

Pretty much any word for the food my grandmother made was not an English word, but I never knew it until I got older.

http://www.lowlands-l.net/travels/taste-fish.php

And my youngest brother is deaf and he cant say words right and he called mom "Bop" so everyone in my nerighborhood always called my mom Bop or the Bop, as in "Go ask the Bop if we can have some cookies."

Answer 2

i don't remember anything like you have described. but my daughter did have some interesting names for things when she was little cause she couldn't pronounce them.
Golden Corral was Golden Cow (she wasn't too far off there, lol)
abasssi for kabassi and aboney for boloney and things that were attached were kanatched.

Answer 3

My oldest brother was Boo and the grocery store was FeFe toys.

Answer 4

I called chick BawkBawk

Answer 5

well it might not be real but i got it off a video game

back in my day we use to call sandwiches "flat bready" and it costed 4 clantars a bite

Answer 6

Yes for sure for certain type of foods

Answer 7

No, we always used the proper name for everything.

Answer 8

I called lipstick lipkick.