**Sound-Off** Your Kids' mispronounciations and special wordings

[BlueMax]

You know... other than "pyuter" for computer, it suprises my how well my boy speaks at only 3.25 years!

I can't think of funny pronunskiashuns, but he loves to change words in songs to something he prefers, or plays with sounds (like starting every word in a sentence with "blarr" or a very wet "fluff".)

It's great!

[bubble.tea]

Updates:

Laptop ----> Top Top

Email ----? 'ah-min-O' lmao It's SO ADORABLE.

Where's Mommy _____?
She's checking her ahminO

[slowtalon]

My fiancee would pronounce her r's as w's when she was little. we have footage of her at a birthday and she was saying in the cutest little girl voice..
"Can I have the chewwy?" (in reference to the cherry on the bday cake)

I don't have kids, so this is probably a dumb question, but, do they do this because the parents spoke "baby talk" to them?

[don242]

I don't have kids, so this is probably a dumb question, but, do they do this because the parents spoke "baby talk" to them?

That can be part of it. The main reason though is just development. It takes time to develop the ability to say certain sounds. Usually by around ages 5-7 most kids have the ability to pronounce most sounds in the vocabulary. Some kids will take a little longer.

Another factor is just the child being creative. If a child doesn't know the correct word for something, they may try to come up with something that makes sense.

And of course once a child comes up with a unique or funny pronounciation and that is followed by laughter and praise by parents, the child continues to use that word or variant. Either they don't know better or thay delight in the attention it brings them. Of course, eventually once the child hears the correct pronounciation enough and they are developed enough to say it properly, they will eventually use the correct word.

[bubble.tea]

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Another factor is just the child being creative. If a child doesn't know the correct word for something, they may try to come up with something that makes sense.

And of course once a child comes up with a unique or funny pronounciation and that is followed by laughter and praise by parents, ......

Great post.

1-Yes, very true....it is as such quite appropriately indicative of just how busy a young childs mind may be. The more creative words a child thinks up indicates how diverse the vocabulary he/she is being exposed to from such a young age, as well as how 'able' they are to process that.

2-Just as valid a point. My wife and I have already questioned ourselves when a particular pronounciation made a transient appearance in our youngest for a couple weeks. We were going bonkers for its daily appearance. Then one day it disappeared, and we found OURSELVES saying it to prompt it's reappearance, but then decided against that and let it fade into our memories .

My kids are 18mos and 40mos.

[Topher]

I remembered another one of my daughters:

sunscream = sunscreen. That used to crack me up, too.

[Ayla500]

my kids also used to call the Purolator man (delivery company) the calculator man.

[bubble.tea]

Did I mention that the tv REMOTE...is actually called the 'Mmmmm-rote' .



My younger is developing his vocabulary and has recently started doing the following which is GOD-AMAZINGLY-ADORABLE.

XY makes a mistake, we speak to him clearly explaining that what he did was wrong, and say at the end something like "Do you understand?"..to which a child would say "yes I understand". Instead what he says is "Awwwt"...sounds like "hot". lmao. NO Idea WHERE he got that association., but he has been doing it like clockwork these past 10days or so. It's so loving. He'll do all sorts of intonations and enunciational variations of 'Awwwwt'...but he ONLY uses it for "Yes, I understand I made a no no" replacement.

[Topher]

XY makes a mistake, we speak to him clearly explaining that what he did was wrong, and say at the end something like "Do you understand?"..to which a child would say "yes I understand". Instead what he says is "Awwwt"...sounds like "hot". lmao. NO Idea WHERE he got that association., but he has been doing it like clockwork these past 10days or so. It's so loving. He'll do all sorts of intonations and enunciational variations of 'Awwwwt'...but he ONLY uses it for "Yes, I understand I made a no no" replacement.

He's probably trying to say "alright". I come from Pennsylvania Dutch country, and down there "alright" comes out as "ah-eet".