Words

cj · Post by cj » Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:22 pm

Cora, who is 2 years old, cannot say 'pink'. Instead, it comes out as 'bitch'. We try not to laugh ...

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:22 pm

bysees.... woodlice, but can be any other insect according to my daughter when she was about 2, and still in common usage.

and a "shaa" is a muslin cloth acording to the other.

Does anyone else have problems with the word "deodreant" and "secetury"? No wonder she couldn`t find them in the dictionary!

She`ll no doubt kill me for making it public!!

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:29 am

There's a certain town in the midlands that ALWAYS gives Jan trouble.

Where the hell IS Stroke on Tent ???

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:50 am

When I was teaching in London, one of my pupils sat an entrance exam for another school. When she came back to us she told me that she had not been able to do all the sums as I had not taught them 'RAT - ee oh'. I asked whether she had said anything she firmly asserted she had said 'Mrs Dobson hasn't taught us RAT - ee - oh yet so I couldn't do the sums.' I assured her it would probably be all right!

Since then that pronunciation has stuck in our family - not easy when teaching the subject!!

cj · Post by cj » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:38 pm

J.R. wrote:Where the hell IS Stroke on Tent ???

Wherever geriatrics go on camping holidays?

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:16 am

As far as the dyslexia etc stuff goes, I have always said pink when I mean yellow and vice versa. I don't mean I do it all the time, but I have done it on occasion all my life.

When No 1 son was about 18-19 months old we went on holiday to Corfu and he started calling things 'mammarts'. To this day we haven't worked out what mammarts are/were. They weren't taktars (tractors) , bikes, 'onkeys (donkeys) or 'rees (trees).

bap · Post by **bap** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:04 pm

Is this off topic? Dunno. When my son William was very young, about 18 months, he had a speech impediment that meant he ubstituted 'g' for 'b' and 'k' for 'p'. One morning we were having breakfast when the chap over the road started revving his motorcycle; Will turned round in his high chair, looking at the man through the dining room window and said "gloody gloke"......

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:47 am

englishangel wrote:As far as the dyslexia etc stuff goes, I have always said pink when I mean yellow and vice versa. I don't mean I do it all the time, but I have done it on occasion all my life.

I exchange August and October. No idea on the spur of the moment which is which. Same with March and May. So sometimes it's right, sometimes not.

Well it's not my fault the eighth month isn't the one with Oct in the name...

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:49 am

My dislexic problems are compounded by multilinguism... I was explaining a technical problem on Monday to the CTP boss for over 5 minutes before the glazed look in his eyes made me realise that I was in the wrong language ( had been wittering away in french) - I sometimes talk to my mother in the wrong language too...

and like all dislexics, it seems, I consistently say left whilst pointing right, or vice versa - very confusing