June 1, 2011. Speaking Tori

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Being a parent means watching your child discover the joys of language. And children, fortunately, have a love both of new sounds and experimentation. Of course, as they learn, they also make mistakes. And sometimes those mispronunciations are more creative (and more fun to say) than their correct counterparts. So, with her 5th birthday less than a week away, here are a few of Tori's wonderful inventions that I simply have not had the heart to correct.

Feel free to add to the list...

Hula Hoop = Hula Loop

hospital = hostable

cheerleaders = cheater leaders

fraternal twins = turtle twins

chipmunk = chick-munk

caterpillar = callerpitter

telescope = spellicope

cinnamon = simmanun

 

 

Comments

[Darcy]

I love all of these. I think I'm going to start using hula loop :)

A couple from my childhood:

Rhinoceros = rhino-co'-ce-ros

Elephant = footyfunt

Interesting that they are both animals.

[Heather]

These were mine when I was a kid:

Fluffy = fluffly
Package = pajick
Shampoo = panshoo

Tori's are wonderful! Hahaha!

[Jo-Ann]

Ryan still does valinna for vanilla and membry for memory. Aaron has a couple but I can remember them. Poor second child

[Julie]

Animal = AM-i-nal
Binder = Vine-der
Caterpillar = Caler-pittar
Hospital = Hos-i-beel

I wish they would talk like this forever!!

[trainwatcher]

Great topic, Charlie, and kudos for not "correcting" Tori -- life will do enough of that!

In the 50's, the kids across the road from us had a million of 'em. My faves:

Refrigerator = Fritter-fratter
Might as well = Mal's might

My three-year-old niece, startled by her first encounter with seeded grapes at Grandma's house: "GEEMA, these GAPES got BONES in it!"

Julie's wish is right on. My little sister and I evolved our own language ("landidge") that made our conversations unintelligible to others, including our parents. We still kid each other by lapsing into it, more than fifty years later.

[Theresa]

eggshell = egg bone
yogurt = yogret
banana = nabana

and my older daughter's favorite joke:

Knock, knock
Who's there?
Banana
Banana who?
You can't eat that--It's on your head!

cracked her up every time.....