Kids are adorable, right? Ok, perhaps not all of the time, but listening to children’s language develop is amazing. When toddlers mispronounce everyday words it can be truly gorgeous, or outright embarrassing! I asked the lovely Life on Wallace Facebook fans to share the words their toddlers mangle. Here are 19 words totally jumbled by toddlers. This is the non-sweary version. It seems kids have a tendency to unintentionally drop the f-bomb, fork or truck, anyone?
19 words totally jumbled by toddlers
1. Wink wink – oink oink, the usual sound made by a pig!
2. Wash facer – face washer
3. Pushions – a mash-up of cushions and pillows
4. Rainbrella – umbrella. I personally think rainbrella is genius, I might add it to my own vocabulary!
5. Bends – Elbows. I guess the very function of an elbow is to bend.
6. Chicken monkeys – Chipmunks.
7. Australian ‘accident’ – Meaning she has an Australian accent! This one is so adorable.
8. Fridge – Bridge
9. Umpire – Vampire. Dressing up as an umpire for Halloween seems far less sinister than a vampire.
10. Trumpets – Crumpets. Breakfast suddenly got very noisy.
11. Grangrad – Granddad
12. Mickmick – picnic
13. Tentacles – testicles. I can hear it now. A little boy, falling off a bike and crushing his boy bits, ‘ouch, my tentacles’. How would you keep a straight face??
14. Stick tank – sticky tape
15. Destructions – instructions. I suspect there’s a parent or two out there who has wanted to destroy some instructions!
16. Busgetti – spaghetti
17. Strangled Egg – scrambled egg.
18. Infection – reflection. Just imagine your child innocently gazing into a pond and exclaiming, ‘mummy I can see my infection’.
19. Milks – nipples. Normalising breastfeeding with this one!
Everyone give me an awww! Thanks ever so much to those who added words mispronounced by their toddlers to the Life on Wallace Facebook page. I loved reading them!
Do you have any words totally jumbled by toddlers to add to the list?
These are gorgeous! I’m totally going to use rainbrella from now on 🙂
Super cute, aren’t they!
My kids have soooo many of these I could write a book. My sister used to piss-ghetti for spaghetti, my eldest used to call crocodiles, cockdiles. haha. Still cracks me up.
I forget to write them down! Cockdiles might have to be added to a ‘sweary’ post!
Number 16 all the way. Love these and will miss them when my kids grow up.
I know, I’ll miss the sweet and innocently mispronounced words too!
This is just the cutest post.
A few of Sams
Renember – remember
Garbage – garage
Micmacdonalds – McDonald’s. I just love this one that we now all call it micmacdonalds
Oh and policeman man lol
Too cute Lexi, you’ve got to love a policeman man!
Ah yes, we have “milks” in this house too! Haha!
It’s adorable, isn’t it Amy!
So cute. Reeve says ‘dickless’ for ridiculous. It’s hilarious!
That is really sweet! I think I might need to do a sweary version of this post xx
haha it is so cute. I love hearing kids learning to speak. My little sister used to say Dicko for disco and my eldest daughter is currently struggling with Olympics calling it instead Omlympics.
One of my family favourites was when my niece whined at my sister who was turning off the TV “Oh, come on Aunty, it’s omo finish!” meant to be almost finished.
It’s omo finish! That’s a great abbreviation.
Haha! We have ‘elbones’ for elbow, and ‘difficated’ for when you’re feeling difficult and frustrated. Love them!
I love it when they combine two words to make a new one, perfect toddler speak!
I love it Claire! Great post. I have a few to add to the list from Miss 2… Fowler = flower, Ba = spa, pailing = playing, hostable = hospital, mulk = milk… There’s probably many more that I can’t think of right now, must write them all down, would be so cute to look back on one day 🙂
Oh yes, we’ve had hostable too! So delightful! Thanks for your lovely comment Lauren xx
This is so cute! Happy to see my little one’s Aussie accident made the list 🙂
Thanks Christine, I thought ‘accident’ was rather adorable.
4 and 5 are freakin genius! Love this… such a laugh. Thanks for sharing! Xx
Two of my favourites too my2morrows!
Ahhh! What a great list! I particularly love “Tentacles” and “Strangled Egg.” I’m going to have to start my own list and get writing them down as soon as my toddler comes out with them. There have definitely been a few mixed up swear words in there! #JustAnotherLinky
Oh you must write them down Cheryl, you assume you’ll remember them, but you forget!
That is super aww! My children are older now & their toddler ramblings a distant memory. #just another linky lifeinthemumslane
Thanks Emma, adorable aren’t they!
Aww I love this, I am compiling a list at the moment and it really makes me laugh how they say these funny things! It also makes me sad when they stop saying them and start speaking “properly”. Waaaaah! #justanotherlinky
It is bittersweet isn’t it when the toddler speak makes way for ‘proper’ language!
I love the jumbled words & mispronounced ones too. It’s sooo cute. I’ve got a list of cute crap my kids say written down cause I want to be able to remember it in years to come. My son calls his big toe his “thumb toe” & it always makes me laugh. I love rainbrella too 🙂
aww so cute! My girl cant really talk yet… she basically says mum, dad, hello and ball. Looking forward to the jumbled and mispronounced words, its a little cute 🙂
Nice read! My daughter years and years ago called croissants ‘musical scones’ I loved it and from that day on, that’s what we called them!
Oh that’s so cute. Hop it all instead of hospital!
Hop it all! So gorgeous.
Haha this made me laugh, so cute. Thanks for linking up to #justanotherlinky xx
Sometimes kids can be cute! Thanks for having me xx
Brilliant, cant wait for Effy to start talking/jumberling
Jumberling! What a sweet way to put it.