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    Words you Butchered as a kid?

    Posts: 2,018 Member
    edited January 3 in Chit-Chat
    The one I remember best is that I used to say Fur-fur-dee-ader for refrigerator.

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      spaghetti........"basketti"

      pasketti
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      pasketti


      hehehe...me too! :laugh:
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