In all of the funny, cute, beautiful moments in my own Life of Dad, my two daughters saying words incorrectly remains the best.
My 10-year-old still cannot say Rice Krispies (she flips the P and the S and it is so freaking adorable) which is fine and dandy because every morning, her sister and I knowingly smile at each other because, oh man, it’s so sweet.
We asked our Facebook community to tell us the words their kids can’t or couldn’t say correctly and WOW! did you flood the thread with cuteness. Here is just a sample of the incorrectly spoken words most of us hope they never, ever learn how to actually pronounce.
Posted by Life of Dad on Friday, July 21, 2017
Kristine Johnson: My daughter has been very articulate since she was 2 years old (she’s 5 now) and she still can’t say hamburger. It always comes out “hangaburger.”
Trenton Capps: My 4 year old says “creditor” instead of “predator.” As in, “You better watch out, daddy, the creditor is gonna get you!”
Micaiah Gallegos: My son is almost 2 and LOVES motorcycles.
But he calls them “mo ky ko”
He also says “sorroo” and “shawoo” instead of sorry and shower.
Erick Manuel Velez: My son, (who’s actually my wife’s nephew but we’ve raised him since he was a baby), couldn’t say my name, Erick. Instead he called me Ah-Kah. We would slow it down for him: “Eh-rick” and he would say it right that way. But when would ask him to say the name without stopping he would say “Ah-Kah”. He’s now 9 and calls me dad, but my close friends still call me Ah-Kah. As a matter of fact my wife has me on her phone under “Erick (Ah-Kah)”
Steve Greenfield: When one of my twins was 3, she would pronounce “sushi” as “smoochy.” You can imagine, once we figured out what she was trying to tell us, how much fun we had with this. (It’s now 19 year later and I still use that term.)
Bo Bacot: For reasons we don’t quite understand, our two year-old calls grapes “coochies.” When the mood hits him, he runs around yelling “I want coochie, I want coochie, I want coochie!”
And, since we use the words he understands to communicate with him, that leads to us saying things like: “Stop popping coochies! You’re getting coochie juice everywhere.”
Emma Smal: Our 2.5 yo son is trying to figure this all out. As we say “sleep tight” at night time he now has started saying “go tight” and “drive tight”. So cute! He also says apapaport in stead of airport.
Erik Tempest: I miss the days when my youngest son used to declare to all within earshot that he was headed out back to bounce on his “tramp-toe-pleem!”
Mike Neal: So my 1 1/2 yr old daughter can’t say shoes. She’s hasn’t figured out the shhh sound yet. Instead she calls them foo foo’s. We think 2 foo’s because there’s 2 shoes. Now the whole family calls them foo foo’s because it’s way better than shoes.
Josh Rickard: My 4 yr old brushes his teesh with a teesh brush.
I’ve thought to correct it, but it’s so dang cute when he says that, so I let it slide.
I’m sure it will correct itself in due time, like most all of the other words he has said incorrectly.
Brenda Myers-Camarata: My youngest daughter called a mid-life crisis a midnight crisis. She said “That man in that red car is having a midnight crisis.” She also said lots of other funny stuff like “It is ‘human’ (humid) outside.” I never corrected her because it was so cute and funny.