Things you mispronounced as a child

JeffreyEpspeen

Elephant, which I pronounced Ele-fant (like Fanta).
Phil Neville, which I pronounced Pill Neville.

That's all I can think of at the moment. I know there was more.

khaldrogo

I used to say chicken for kitchen....

dreamers75

hopspital

JeffreyEpspeen

I used to think the lead singer of Aerosmith was called Aero Smith. I saw a Halloween mask in the shop and shouted "That looks like Aerosmith!"

Thoie

I used refer to butterflies as "flutter byes", and if I cut my knee I'd ask for a "smaster" when I was very small.

I used also pronounce hyperbole as hyper-bowl, as I'd only ever seen it written down.

Tauriel

I used to pronounce Penelope as Penny Lope and chilblains as chiblings.

nthclare

Hospil for hospital skeltin for skeleton

Handed handet, chungum chewing gum, amblens for ambulance, tar an toola for tarantula...

Dares for there's..

The Shannon accent is the funniest of all, they've got a way of saying things and their pronounced word has a definitive ending.

Wend doun to the chop, dat fackin deck, Mikal was dare, hezze a fackan deck, aiiid luv to kaick, da fackin sheat oud of ham,

Fackan, prack...

Oh I love Clare and it's many accent's and we're left alone.

iamstop

dreamers75 wrote: »

hopspital

My sister used to call it the hopstical.

yerwanthere123

Specific was always 'pacific'

castletownman

Used to pronounce Qatar as "Quwaytar".

Even to this day, when reading about uniformed police I always misinterpret it as "un-informed". Bleedin useless guards wha'.

Beanntraigheach

Hans Solo
Dark Vader
Yoga

Gynoid

Tig gar (guitar) - very young
Sprussel sprouts - still young.
Abdomim , fillum - even now.

And according to some, dunkeys are supposed to be called " don - kees" - they are in their shyte.

Sherry Baby

I use to always say hurted like "that hurted me".

But after looking it up, I technically wasnt wrong. I was just being archaic.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/hurted

Pyridine

I used to pronounce f-uck with a ph- instead of an f

freshpopcorn

I had a speech impediment so several things!

stevek93

gracias = "grassy ass"

Ipso

yerwanthere123 wrote: »

Specific was always 'pacific:

For all intensive purposes, people probably knew what you meant.

New Home

My brother was obsessed by the Evil Queen in Snow White, when he was 4 or 5. He wanted to do magic poRtions, just like she did.

Deebles McBeebles

Oh God, so many. I used to say "Unker" instead of uncle. And "cababan" for caravan. Pronounced anal as "annual".

So no one knew what I was saying when I told them Unker Gary annually raped me in his cababan.

pinktoe

Funeralel or funereal for funeral and hospipital or hostipal.
I used to call Kerry curry.

For some reason I thought the song "pretty woman" was Willie wormer.

skallywag

Com-it-ay .. committee ...

Skylinehead

Thoie wrote: »

I used also pronounce hyperbole as hyper-bowl, as I'd only ever seen it written down.

I still have this problem. I know well how it's pronounced, but hyperbowl is baked into my head.

Gynoid

pinktoe wrote: »

Funeralel or funereal for funeral and hospipital or hostipal.
I used to call Kerry curry.

For some reason I thought the song "pretty woman" was Willie wormer.

And that song Jolene with "four hundred children and a crop in the field". There was many a morning that belted out from Rte radio before school leaving me very perplexed eating me Rice Krispies.

IAMAMORON

I pronounced everything perfectly.

But one of my imaginary friends couldn't say spaghetti (hisbaguetty or something similar ). He used to cry and pull tantrums also, I sometimes copied him. He also got the blame for cutting my sisters hair when he locked her under the stairs.

I miss him.

Sardonicat

Crips for crisps and basgetty for spaghetti

I thought sandwich was another word for hospital, for some bizarre reason!

Oh and it was Lucille who left four hundred children and a crop in the field. Jolene was the man stealer.

jellybear

I used to say t instead of c...eg tat instead of cat...tup of toffee instead of cup of coffee...:D

Gynoid

Sardonicat wrote: »

Crips for crisps and basgetty for spaghetti

I thought sandwich was another word for hospital, for some bizarre reason!

Oh and it was Lucille who left four hundred children and a crop in the field. Jolene was the man stealer.

Doh!

Sardonicat

Gynoid wrote: »

Doh!

Well, they were both trollops so your confusion's understandable.

marley1

alasation for alsatian I still struggle

JeffreyEpspeen

Gynoid wrote: »

Tig gar (guitar) - very young
Sprussel sprouts - still young.
Abdomim , fillum - even now.

And according to some, dunkeys are supposed to be called " don - kees" - they are in their shyte.

One of those words Americans rip the piss out of us for pronouncing wrong.

AllForIt

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

Hans Solo
Dark Vader
Yoga

The imp-ire strikes back

AllForIt

Chim-bly

Arghus

I could not say kitchen, hospital and I called my neighbour, Eileen, Alien

A friend of mine still pronounces Penguin as Pingwing. I die inside each time I hear it, but I haven't the heart to correct him.

Hoop66

Lived in Glasgow when I was a toddler, I'm told I called the Kelvin Hall the Cobblin Hell, and a microphone a kanalkatune.