Childhood mispronunciations
My parents said I would always mispronounce "walking" as " wall king" and "Toy'R'Us" as "toys us us".
Do you remember any mispronunciations you had when you were a child?
October 6, 2013
35 Comments • Newest first
@Rejigigas : Oh good. Glad to see I'm not the only one who mispronounced it in Mario Kart.
i recall being told i had a hard time saying koala. my parents said i spent saying "ko" like twenty times before finally saying koala.
[quote=HerroDer]Grand Prix = Grand Pricks[/quote]
Ugh. This was my problem when I started playing Mario Kart.
Not really a mispronunciation but they said I called a car "beep beep go".
@HannahMontanas well you can actually pronounce that as ANT or as ONT
To this day I am unable to pronounce anything with double s sounds.
"doubt" was dubb
"route" - well idk I said it how it was spelt
In Canto I always mix up the words that means grains of rice and rice that is cooked
Six as "sex"
and I remember misreading mosquito as "moss-quit-toe"
I don't remember any words I mispronounced, but my family always insists on reminiscing about me telling my aunt "I don't want chocolate on my plate" as she was scooping some dark refried beans. My girlfriend finds the story cute, but I'm tired of hearing about it, [i]I[/i] don't even remember it lol. And my aunt purposely mispronounces my name because of how my little cousin (her daughter) used to say my name. She thought it was cute, so now [i]she[/i] calls me it, even though my cousin is 16 now.
ladder
letter
When I was quite young (learning to talk phase) I would say "mock" instead of milk. And "galf" instead of golf.
I used to mispronounce organism as... well you know
Grand Prix = Grand Pricks
@abi232: Lawl, probably. I do have a quiet voice
[quote=icoleslawderp]@IliekAranDx: No idea, I say it as Lie-berry?[/quote]
The 'r' isn't silent. You probably say it fast enough that no one notices, or no one cares enough to correct it. Not that it matters lol
@Shir the R shouldnt be silent, but its kinda hard to pronounce it so no one bothers.
rice with lice
#imkorean
[quote=simaini]i used to pronounce suicide as supercide
and throw up as blow up </3
i remember these mispronunciations from kindergarten, because we used to play the stupid quarter game and when my quarter flies off the table from my flick, i would call it a supercide >.< and one time, i was eating a watermelon in the cafeteria and then i suddenly vomited all over the table </3 i remember the vomit being all red and it literally just slipping out of my throat. i remember telling the nurse "i blew up" [/quote]
I freaking lol'd omfg
@IliekAranDx: No idea, I say it as Lie-berry?
I pronounced tourist as terrorist.
When i was younger my parents would go downtown (we live in Hawaii) and id follow and whenever i saw a bunch of white people i was like "hey mommy look at all the white terrorists."
i used to pronounce suicide as supercide
and throw up as blow up </3
i remember these mispronunciations from kindergarten, because we used to play the stupid quarter game and when my quarter flies off the table from my flick, i would call it a supercide >.< and one time, i was eating a watermelon in the cafeteria and then i suddenly vomited all over the table </3 i remember the vomit being all red and it literally just slipping out of my throat. i remember telling the nurse "i blew up"
in spanish dog=perro, i used to say peggo
@Rejigigas: Made me make a retarded laugh.
@Doutei Everyone always told me FebUary and I've always spelled and said it like that.....til now......
[quote=Doutei]February...
Usually i would go Feb boo rare ree instead of feb- roo rare ree[/quote]
I thought you were supposed to pronounce it as feb-buh-wary...
[quote=Errr]
Kitchen=Chicken[/quote]
Get back in the chicken. Sorry I lol'd.
[quote=icoleslawderp]Isn't that how you're suppose to pronounce it though?
I used to say Cranberry as Crane-berry[/quote]
LibRRRRRary
Kitchen=Chicken
@icoleslawderp: isn't it Ly-brah-ry? lol At least that's what my middle school teacher told me f3
[quote=IliekAranDx]lol Library as Ly-berry[/quote]
Isn't that how you're suppose to pronounce it though?
I used to say Cranberry as Crane-berry
lol Library as Ly-berry
hyperbole (hyper-bowl)
rendezvous (ren-deh-vus)
I used to say girl like "gelel" instead of "grrl"
Same with world
[quote=Doutei]February...
Usually i would go Feb boo rare ree instead of feb- roo rare ree[/quote]
I honestly still pronounce it this way.
i dont remember anything
Walking = Woking.
Anyways, I don't recall mispronouncing words that much
February...
Usually i would go Feb boo rare ree instead of feb- roo rare ree
renember instead of remember.
I couldn't say "vaccination" in Vietnamese at all.
My mum told me I mispronounced "truck".