Words you Butchered as a kid?

scapez
scapez Posts: 2,018 Member
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The one I remember best is that I used to say Fur-fur-dee-ader for refrigerator.
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  • boecho
    boecho Posts: 74
    spaghetti........"basketti"
  • GretchenReine
    GretchenReine Posts: 1,374 Member
    spaghetti........"basketti"

    pasketti
  • ekkand
    ekkand Posts: 592 Member
    Instead of saying "may I have some salami" when I would ask my grandma for some I would say "may I have "some lami" haha
    Also, I use to count "one... two.... free.... WHOLE BUNCH!" when I was really little.
  • dr2k12
    dr2k12 Posts: 291 Member
    Laughed (always thought it was pronounced lugahugged)
    Cuisine (always thought it was pronounced cousin)
  • Owsla135
    Owsla135 Posts: 350 Member
    tornadoes were "tomatoes"
  • classycouture
    classycouture Posts: 888 Member
    calligraphy = cla-rig-rah-fee
  • Rachlmale
    Rachlmale Posts: 640 Member
    Indicator: Noisy 'cater
  • PJ64
    PJ64 Posts: 866 Member
    My middle name is Joseph and I would say Jofus
  • HeidiMightyRawr
    HeidiMightyRawr Posts: 3,343 Member
    I used to say "dogurt" instead of yogurt. No idea why.

    One of the words commonly "butchered" by children was "lellow" instead of yellow. That used to really get on my nerves when other kids would say that.
  • classycouture
    classycouture Posts: 888 Member
    Oh and for a while "truck" was "*kitten*"

    My dad loves telling that story haha.
  • Ta2dchic20
    Ta2dchic20 Posts: 376 Member
    Not me, but when my son was around 8, he asked me how to spell 'Betends'. I told him, 'It's not 'betends honey, it's pretends', to which he argued that 'no, it's betends'. Of course being mom, I told him 'No, it's pretends'. At which point he rolls his eyes, shakes his head and says, ' How do you spell imagine?'
  • ravengirl1611
    ravengirl1611 Posts: 285 Member
    Apple sauce and Apple juice were always Happy sauce and Happy juice - apparently I could say them correctly - just didnt.
  • JAllen32
    JAllen32 Posts: 991 Member
    I don't know of any that I said, but my little brother would say "funder" for thunder, and "hangaburger" for hamburger. lol Kids are cute! Oh and my bestie used to say "lishlash" instead of eyelash. :-)
  • tracyowens22
    tracyowens22 Posts: 49 Member
    Lemonade was lemon-lade
    Spaghetti-Os was gay-goes
    trampoline was bonky-bong
    cereal was sidder
  • RedHeadDevotchka
    RedHeadDevotchka Posts: 1,394 Member
    College Cheese for Cottage Cheese
  • kelleymeg
    kelleymeg Posts: 24 Member
    backyard = "back - ee- ard"
  • littlelaura
    littlelaura Posts: 1,028 Member
    headfore for forehead
  • paint_it_black
    paint_it_black Posts: 208 Member
    Pronunciation was not a strong point of my little girls, but it sure was funny

    Hectorcoktor - Helicopter
    LaterLater - Radiator
    Fukayno - Volcano

    and when we asked her to say hippopotamus she would simply reply - 'No, imma too wee''
  • scapez
    scapez Posts: 2,018 Member
    My friend that lived across the street couldn't pronounce Monongahela as a teenager (a river in Pittsburgh - pronounced ma-non-gah-hey-la)...she would always say Ma-honga-lay-lee.
  • MommiLauren
    MommiLauren Posts: 323 Member
    well idk when i was little. but i found out when we went to a baseball game i cant say binoculars- (binoc- uh-lars) lol. weird but thank god it isnt used very much =)
  • jwhit31
    jwhit31 Posts: 450 Member
    Pancakes = panicakes

    Spaghetti = pasketti
  • pumalama
    pumalama Posts: 140 Member
    I was raised in the French language so for me, instead of saying oui (yes) I would say i (e), I would also call a vache (cow) yash
  • chelledawg14
    chelledawg14 Posts: 509 Member
    I didn't do this, but my daughter would say "spitachios" instead of pistachios. She is 13 now. Her dad & I didn't even correct her until she was around 8 because we would laugh every time she said it. The only word I really butchered, per my parents, was "kitchen". I'd say "kickin".

    My daughter would also say "tick-el-eeeeeeee" for "typically" in one of the Kenny Chesney songs.
  • nerdyandilikeit
    nerdyandilikeit Posts: 2,185 Member
    The one I hear the story for the most is 'valinna' for vanilla. Before my grandpa died, we'd go to dinner with him and my grandma every other Sunday (when we weren't at Dad's). It was usually at Bob Evans or Richards with occasional local restaurants thrown in. For dessert, I'd either have pumpkin or sugar cream pie (just like Papa) or vanilla ice cream. I'd insist on telling the waitress myself what I wanted, sitting up straight and proudly asking for my valinna ice cream.
  • jess7386
    jess7386 Posts: 477 Member
    specific = pacific
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    Cinnamon = "Cin-mon-in"

    I also had a speech impediment with Rs, so Refrigerator became "Wefwidgawato".
  • jwhit31
    jwhit31 Posts: 450 Member
    spaghetti........"basketti"

    pasketti


    hehehe...me too! :laugh:
  • Jayme813
    Jayme813 Posts: 45 Member
    I can't quite remember mine, but here are a few from my nephew (who is now 10, but we still tease him about these):
    Bre-fix = Breakfast
    Bagrilla = Gorilla
    Bee-lax daaahling, bee-laaaax = "Relax darling, relax!"
    Hah-wash = Carwash (when singing the song)
    A b c d e f g, haychi k k emelimo p = a b c d e f g, h i j k l m n o p
    Hauntie = Auntie

    He had a lot of great ones... as I remember them I'll post again lol
  • blissfulself
    blissfulself Posts: 193 Member
    turch = church per my little brother
  • Erienneb
    Erienneb Posts: 592 Member
    I had good pronunciation when I was little. But my dad, being 18 when I was learning to talk, decided to mess me up on purpose. So he taught me that a remote control was called a kitty-cat which I called it for FOREVER. and then every time someone picked up a knife they told me not to touch it because it was sharp, so I honestly thought a knife was called a sharp for years.

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