Many young children make up words or rearrange words and it is perfectly normal. They are not actually saying the word backwards. They are just rearranging the words so it is easier for them to say. If you repeat the words to them correctly they will most likely adapt with age. Overall you should not worry about your child’s speech they rearrange words naturally. Have you ever heard a child say pasketti or busketti instead of spaghetti?
My son used to say aminals instead of animals and my 6 y.o. daughter says Statue of Delivery instead of Statue of Liberty and she used to say westawan instead of restaurant. My mother in law told me that my husband as a kid used to call his sister Lisa “himis”. I thought it was hilarious so I decided to question my facebook readers what funny words do their kids say or used to say. Some answers were cracking me up. Parents gotta write the words down for future to remember and tell their kids. So I decided to include my top hilarious picks from my readers what funny words do their kids say.
Here they are:
Peter Butter – for peanut butter
Hangabers – for hamburgers
Sammich – for sandwitch
Firefuck – for Fire truck (LOl pardon the language here)
Raback Borama or Raback Orama – for Barack Obama
Cattapitter – for caterpillar
Warmet – for Wallmart
United States of Numerica – for USA
Cimmanon – for cinnamon
Glubs – for gloves
Tuffapare – for Tupperware
Brefask – for breakfast
Isherdisher – for air conditioner
Yesternight – for yesterday
Vegetable – for festival
Sub-toot – substitute teacher
iBap – iPad
Tismiss – Christmas
Fitcherella – Cinderella
Renember – remember
Alligator – for elevator or Gatorade
Foam – phone
Tickamels – Chemicals
Gamote – remote
Orgit – yogurt
Bumalums – vitamins
Crash can – trash can
Old Gravy store – Old Navy
Efalant – Elephant
Honey in the boats – Honey Bunches of oats
Gumthing – Something
Lasterday – yesterday
I loved watching my kiddos learn to talk more than any milestones. I sometimes tell them the funny words they used to say. They love it and it makes them smile.
Do you have some made up words by kids mashups to add to the list?
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lol this is hilarious list.. My son used to say lasterday and lasternight too. Now he says hanitizer for hand sanitizer and hippopomatus for hippopotamus.
My son would say sqwamwich for sandwich
Hah Kweme!!!!
Ice cream.
My eldest used to say “ambelope” for “ambulance”.
My daughter “tuck” for “tough” and “stuck” for “stuff”
alumanamim for aluminum
Sgabetti-spaghetti
My 3 year old son said mom-aide instead of mermaid, he called the merry-go-round the miracle-round,, and motorcycle he called murder-cycle. Not to far fetched, crazy!
My little sister says pose for supposed
I used to make up words from scratch, because they gave me a visceral sense of the object – of course, at the time I lacked the vocab to describe WHY I invented words.
Eunegs were Sultanas – or generally just any dried fruits.
Memuits was my name for the topical creams used to disinfect cuts, road-rash or gravel rash. I fell of bikes a lot as a kid, and the neighborhood knew about it…. I had a set of lungs.
There were others, but I’d have to ask my mother about them.
Bephiss is my latest one (yes, I still do it). It’s any softdrink, we have in the fridge. My family now use it too. Mostly as a laugh.
Also: I’m 40.
So long as people know what you’re talking about, language is malleable, and should continue to be. Just don’t enforce it on others.
Tolkien and Roddenbury made up languages for their fictions, sampling the feeling and sounds of words as mechanisms to define them in the societal context of their fantasy and science fiction.
BTW, I write professionally – I have three published series at the moment, and more in the pipeline.
ENCOURAGE your kids to use their language as an outlet for their emotions, feeling and thoughts, even if they get the words wrong, or speak “funny’. Encourage them to learn the right way to speak so everyone can understand them, but also encourage them to be wholly themselves in their speech.
It’s GREAT to be wrong – especially if you learn through trial and error. Also, I recommend – if possible – that you have one night a week of family “improv” where you all get together and act out a scene for fun. I know it sounds weird as hell, but it’s a great post-dinner game, especially for the kids, and will help them overcome their fear of public speaking – or just speaking up.