What a lovely word...

[aka pixi]

My 2 year old neice was chatting to me the other day and called a snowman a mak-mak, i was intrigued as to where she had got the word from until my sister told me that mak-mak is the word she calls a duck (obviously meaning quack quack). Bless her heart, I suppose a round fat white snowman with an orange carrot nose sort of does look like a giant duck. I dont think I will ever call a snowman a snowman again :)

[aka pixi]

Hi Deenie, rofl they are brilliant, I loved the elephant one lol :)

[Mistopheles]

Am I too late to join in?
My brother called me 'Be-Be' until he was 5 as he couldn't say Jaime. He also used to say 'Binana' as well.

My partner still calls scrambled eggs 'scrambly eggs'.

But my favourite came from a little girl I was babysitting. She was trying to tell me that her brother had a catapult, but kept telling me he shot her with a 'capapiller'.

[aka pixi]

hi Mistopheles not seen you for ages, hope you are okay :) tee hee I say scrambly eggs too. oh bless the little girl for saying capapiller. I have found throughout this thread that the mixed up words are much better than the normal words :)

[shivvy]

how about petit filous yoghurts being called flippety poos!!

[aka pixi]

hi shivvy roflmao, bless aren't kids ace?

[tell-me-more]

I was a very inquisitive child, just as I'm an inquisitive adult and once when Mum was driving, she got fed up of me asking what everything was, so when I asked her what a JCB was, she said "dunno". A while later, when there was one outside our house, I shouted "Look Mummy! There's a dinno!" I called them dinnos for years after.

I also used to go with mum to work and she used to entertain me by giving everyone nicknames that rhymed. She stopped when I greeted one of her colleagues by saying "Hello Sweaty Betty".

The one that still makes everyone laugh though is when a friend stayed over with her young son. As she changed him, she said to me "Look, there's his willy" and I replied loudly "That's not a willy, that's a penis!"