There are a many words that my six year old (holy crap my kid is six already!!!) mispronounces and some of them, I just refuse to correct her on. Most of them, actually. I'm not trying to do her a disservice here, but why correct her when I much prefer her version of them? Also, I try to recognize that my kid has really only been speaking English for 4 years and there is so much to learn. Lot's of tedious details that she hasn't quite mastered. So when she hears a word spoken very quickly, naturally she's going to process it with her own logic and reproduce it how her brain sees fit. My number one example is also my favorite.
Covered's: This is how her brain reproduced the odd word, "Cupboards". We normally call them cabinets, but we have one in our house that we all refer to as the "snack cupboard". Her mind tells her that these shelves of pretzels and fruit snacks are covered up by doors. Therefore, we shall call them "covered's". Doesn't that make far more sense than "cup-boards"? I vote for Sasha's version of that one.
She has a few others that I love too. I feel like these words are getting harder and harder for me to pronounce properly. I like her versions so much and I hear them so frequently that they seem correct somehow.
Pop-lee-er = popular
Reg-lee-er = regular
Ree-dic-lee-ous = ridiculous
Wa-ther = water
Bu-ther = butter. "Should I get out the buther mother?"
A long time ago I read a great Facebook post from a girl, Mindi, that I've known forever. Her daughter's favorite doughnuts are "blazed". This cute kid must have heard the word "glazed" once, rejected it in her mind and replaced it with "blazed". Needless to say, Mindi will never correct her. And why should she? I can't imagine anything going better with a delicious doughnut than the giggle you'd get hearing this kid say "blazed" doughnut.
love it...I've eaten many a "blazed" donut in my life but it had nothing to do with mispronunciations, if you know what I mean....I've already noticed a lot of fun misspeaks coming from my 30-month old Roma, as well...we are trying to raise her as a Spanish speaker, whenever she asks "please" it comes out as "por favut."
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I love it. My favorite of my daughter's was Strawbabies for strawberries. She's 23 now. My son for some reason called snowmen Noknees. He's 14. So no you never forget! :-)
ReplyDeleteI love this blog entry! Thank you for not correcting the common sense that we mistake for creativity! My 10 yr old son didn't have an umbrella. He had a sunbrella or a rainbrella, depending on the weather! My seven year old daughter has always called ponytail holders, "peana-moes." Feel free to spell that however you'd like. Webster probably won't be putting it in his dictionary!
ReplyDeleteI love this blog entry! Thank you for not correcting the common sense that we mistake for creativity! My 10 yr old son didn't have an umbrella. He had a sunbrella or a rainbrella, depending on the weather! My seven year old daughter has always called ponytail holders, "peana-moes." Feel free to spell that however you'd like. Webster probably won't be putting it in his dictionary!
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