Every kid has their own way of speaking as they acquire language. Proper grammar and pronunciation is a learning process. J is your typical four year old and has difficulty pronouncing the “y” sound so “yellow” is “lellow”. She also has a hard time with the “th” sound so she says “teef” (teeth) and “froat” (throat). But she has also put some words in her vocabulary blender, and here is the result. I am hesitant to correct her because some of them are super funny and I know as she gets older she will figure it out.
What she says | What she means |
Cantaloupe | Antelope |
Head Brain | Forehead |
The day after this day | Tomorrow |
Splinter | Blister |
Bones and Arrow | Bows and Arrows |
Eenie eenie eyenie oh, catch a tiger in your toe |
Eenie meenie minie mo, catch a tiger by the toe |
Bounce back to me | Ricochet |
Racoon | Cocoon |
Golf course | Obstacle course |
And my all time favorite “Lightning the Queen”, which would be Lightning McQueen from the movie Cars. After all, he is a race car, so drag…racing isn’t that far fetched.
What are some funny things your kid says?