Have you ever thought about the funny things kids say, or the way people in general enunciate words? I got thinking about this today and thought it might be interesting to explore some of these. I'd be curious to hear from others in how your children pronounce certain words or something funny they have come up with. I think about both of my boys and the word "spaghetti". Tony, our 16 year old, used to pronounce it "sabelli" and our 4 year old, Christian, calls it "baschetti". Isn't it interesting how they come up with these cute words? I have several nieces that Christian has "nick-named" because he can't quite get the pronunciation down yet. For example: Tabitha = Tabfa, Mariah = Riah, Alisha = Lisha, and Alea = Lea. The funny thing is that I find these nicknames to catch on and although the rest of us can correctly speak their names, we find ourselves referring back to the nickname. Here recently we had a discussion regarding the word "wash" at my in-laws house. I am sure many of you have heard this discussion before in your own homes. Why is it that so many people say "warsh"? Where did that "r" come from? Yet we seem to so commonly add it. Then there is the old common state of Missouri! Yep, you would think this would be pretty simple to speak; yet how many people say "Missoura"? Last time I checked there was no "a" at the end of it. Now for my word - something. Pretty simple, right? Well somewhere along the line, I have picked up this really bad habit and so when I say the word, it comes out "sunthin"! How much more slang can you get? I just find it interesting in how we all speak differently and the pronunciation of words is so different among us. In searching the website to find some other interesting things regarding word pronunciation, I found the following sites:
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/mispron.html
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1431/what-words-are-commonly-mispronounced-by-literate-people-who-read-them-before-th
You should check them out; they are kind of interesting. Well, hope you enjoyed this post and I look forward to hearing what funny things your children say or the way you pronounce words.
It is funny when you thing about it. My oldest always pronounced spaghetti right, but my youngest on the other hand calls it pa-skety. Even the pronunciation of their own names, Oliver use to call himself Offer. and Tristan calls himself Twistin. I think it is funny! Have you ever seen those things that are 7YP3D L1K3 TH15? Where they use numbers and upside down letters and weird stuff but we can still read it?! I think this is similar how spaghetti can be pronounced pa-sgetti,sabelli, and pashetti and all understood for the same word. My 5 year old right now is driving me crazy with one word! Need. He knows how to say it right, but for some reason he says, Mom, I weed milk. Im now no longer responding to it. I tell him weeds are in the back yard, he should go get one. lol.
ReplyDeleteI love when kids say something that's not quite right, then I'm a little sad when they start to say it right. Right now my niece is 2, almost 3, and she calls me 'Tay'. It's hard to say Aunt Amber, so all my nieces and nephews call me Aunt A. Except the baby! She also says bee-boo, when she has an scratch or something. So adorable!!
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