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When daughter no. 1 started at primary school, she came home very excited one day, announcing that they had been doing grammar. "This . is a full stop, and this ' is a topostopee." It has stuck ever since.

Okay here we go: -

Tidars Slippers
Douch Yogurt
Ticuntet Cigarette
Turdy Curry (pretty apt really)

These are just some of the great kiddie sayings

Middle daughter came home from junior school announcing very excitedly that "a psychopath came to see Adam today"


Further investigation revealed that it was actually a psychotherapist who had come to see Adam


On reflection we decided that this was only marginally less scary than the first alternative.

I read a book where the anti-hero was taken to see a psycotherapist and ran screaming from the building having mis-read the label on the door

psycho-the-rapist.

Well you would wouldn't you!

Or the little boy who read the sign on the school office door 'bursar/secretary' as bizarre secretary. And the little girl who had to see the doctor because she had a bazooka on her foot (verucca).

Eldest daughter, Emma-Jayne, (now a 30-something FA football coach), had major troubles with two words, and we've never let her forget it !

Heliohoohopter = Helicopter.

Gizarre = Cigar.

My children called and ambulance and ambliance, so when I stressed the u it became ambUlance, both of which are now used in our household.

We also have logurt and lellow as No 2 son could not pronounce y. He could but he would go 'y y y logurt'

I was not going to embarass my self or my children about things they said in the past - just it is enough to let you know that I have a problem with words these days - and when I asked Chris for the Fire engine - he looked at me, seeing I was carrying the iron, guesssed I wanted the Ironing board - it has not been forgotten yet... and probably won't ever be.

Ah , Jude - I once told my husband to put the whale on the table .... well, of course I meant the books, what else ?

and we have a family verb " to bongle "... means a variety of things depending on context

My nephew could not say fire-engine, he used to say fuch-engine. Highly embarrassing in a crowd

Am SO loving this topic

the choir i sing with has it's own phrases, one is the verb to have a sadness, I love it, says everything (like the trockets above)

my brother couldn't say his c's so cuddle became duddle!

Euterpe13 wrote:Ah , Jude - I once told my husband to put the whale on the table .... well, of course I meant the books, what else ?

I do this stuff ALL the time.

Got tested for dyslexia and there's one test about picture recognition. They show you a page of really simple line drawings, of say:

baby, tree, car, cat, man
dog, shop, girl, house, river

and they even demonstrate it first, you have to say the word for each thing as quickly as you can one after another, they demo it so you know the word they use, you don't have to think, ooh, is it a shop or a store or a building, they've just said "shop".

So I did this test and I was SO bad they stopped me part way through, I just cannot think of the word for something, so just cos of this, I'm now officially dyslexic.