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30 Times Kids Were Accidentally Hilarious By Giving ‘Alternative’ Names For Everyday Things
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Some parents will agree that kids seem to grow up really fast, so everything they do, say, and accomplish becomes some of the most precious moments for adults. After the first steps and words, it becomes interesting to see how the kid is growing up and showing their evolving personality. Especially when kids are only learning about the world and expressing themselves verbally. This is why a lot of parents love to share the little language gems their children think of and use in life.
Bored Panda already presented some of the most hilarious words kids tend to call various everyday items. You can find these lists here, here and here. “Bless you box,” “Vampire State Building,” and “Rainbrella” are only a few funny examples revealing the language creativity of small kids. Following this, some more parents joined in and added some more whimsical words that their kids use, making everyone think that maybe these new versions are better than the original.
Which one of these are your favorite? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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Wise beauty 4 years ago
Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in lasterday
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Heather Evans 4 years ago
My daughter used to say "we love our chudders" She got the concept, but not the pronunciation of each other.
Steve Ramaekers 4 years ago
Mine did same bc it’s a normal developmental speech error. The l for y
Even though it might seem that language is only one of many developing aspects through a kid’s childhood, it is one of the most important ones as it defines how later this kid will be able to express themselves, communicate and socialize, and learn. So it becomes crucial for parents to encourage their kids to express themselves as well as deepen this communication to the point where they will be able to use language properly.
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Got Myself 4 Dwarves 4 years ago
My oldest couldn't say popcorn when he was little so anytime he requested some he would say cockporn. Was gutted when he learned the right way to say it
SumoNinja 4 years ago
My niece couldn't pronounce a "TR" sound, and it can out as "F". Pretty funny when her dad got a new TRuck and she was telling everyone about it.
Anne Reid 4 years ago
My friend’s son did that! He also had speech delays, so this lasted longer than it would most kids. Of course, he was a kid obsessed with anything with wheels. I loved taking him out for walks just to see his excitement. “Hell dum f*ck” was screamed repeatedly in a crowded playground. A friend brought a new toy....a bright yellow dump truck. I promptly bought him one of his own.
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V Martinez 4 years ago
My oldest kid used to call it Friday Jr when he was little. The things kids say! Lol!
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
I use Friday Eve. Got other people at work doing it. I'm in my third or fourth childhood.
Cha Cha slide 3 years ago
In my band class my teacher calls it baby friday
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Rikke Visby Wickberg 4 years ago
It was always called little Friday when I was a high school kid. 😂At one point it got so bad, Wednesday became little Thursday, and then the teachers decided it was time for a teacher-parents conversation without any of the kids present.
Martin König 4 years ago
Do we all realize that Sunday is a little Monday, accoording to this philosophy? Enjoy your weekend!
Jesper Skriver Vestergaard 4 years ago
Well here (Denmark) the college students have been calling it that for decades
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Laly Lynch 4 years ago (edited)
This one reminded me of when my nephew was 2 years old and we were trying to get him to call my boyfriend (now husband) "Pher Pher" (nickname for Christopher that his neices called him), but instead, my nephew would call him "Baboo." Don't know where he got that but of course, it stuck, lol.
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
The first few sentences made me think that this was referring to toy baboons.
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Rachael Sampson 4 years ago
Why would the friend be "embarrassed"? All 3 year olds are going to mess up their words. Might as well just laugh at all the funny things they say. They ARE usually funny.
Willemijn DXB 4 years ago (edited)
yes you are, yes you are. oh wait..., you still are tho (in cute baby voice)
Before kids start to go to kindergarten and school, parents are the ones who are taking the role of the teacher. What can parents do to help their kids to develop their communication skills? First, it is crucial to talk to the kid while allowing them to respond back. Gradually adding new words and explaining their meanings will help to broaden a kid’s vocabulary. Reading is also known as one of the most helpful tactics in language development as it allows them to understand the difference between written and spoken language.
It is known that there are certain language development stages that help parents to understand whether a kid is reaching certain progress in their language learning. According to their age, a kid is expected to reach a certain milestone, and if they struggle to do so, a speech pathologist comes to help.
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Deb Johnston 4 years ago
My preschool nephew came out of the bathroom one day after he had a case of diarrhea, but he didn't know the right word to say, so he announced to everyone that he had some "Bad News".
Terri Owens 4 years ago
My son used to say "my butt is throwing up" when describing diarrhea. Seems accurate to...
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
My friends kid called having gas "poo poo pressure" which I thought was rather apt.
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John G 4 years ago
No, certainly not. This is incorrect, and there should be no support for minors renaming conventional insects.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
Yeah, adults make better decisions. Imagine what would this kid have called the "butterfly"!
Load More Replies...Bored Panda contacted Dr Diane Paul, who is a Director of Clinical Issues in SLP at The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), and asked her to share some more insights on kids’ language development. The specialist agreed that parents play a pretty important role in this situation.
According to Dr Paul, “parents’ communication with their children is vital to children’s development of oral/spoken language and signed language (for Deaf children). It is true that children acquire oral and signed language naturally, with no instruction (unlike reading and writing, which have to be taught). But children must hear or see and interact with others who use the same language to develop their natural ability. Another way of saying this is that ‘children who hear or see no language, learn no language.’”
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Terry Tobias 4 years ago
My mother tells me that when I was little, I called ketchup "chup-up". She still calls it that.
Laly Lynch 4 years ago (edited)
Daughter getting her pictures taken surprised everyone when she says, "Geez!"
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tuzdayschild 4 years ago
If your 4 year old is only playing with the iPad on weekends, you're doing great.
FailBunny17 4 years ago
Tell me electronics are your kids babysitter without telling me electronics babysit your kids. 🤣
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The specialist also revealed what hides behind this silly word-making. “Alternative names can be attributed to many things, including young children’s (1) ability to pronounce certain sounds and sound combinations; they often substitute easier sounds for later developing sounds, e.g., ‘lun’ for ‘run’ or they omit certain sounds from words, e.g., ‘mik’ for ‘milk’; and (2) playfulness with language. As they play, they often produce novel words, e.g., ‘baby’ may become ‘bady,’ ‘bado,’ or ‘boby’ or they may string words together such as ‘baby bady bado boby.’”
The tendency to mispronounce words or create “replacements” for actual words decreases as kids start growing up. According to Dr Paul, what happens is that their creativity doesn’t disappear but rather becomes more “mature” including more elaborate “jokes and puns”.
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a_smol_berry 4 years ago (edited)
I don’t know what an esophagus is, I’m way older then him. I recognize the name, just ask me where my esophagus is and I’d reply, “Bless you.”
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Jennifer Crompton 3 years ago
My son had strep throat when he was 4 and kept telling people that he had a neck infection
We asked the specialist to share some of her favorite word “alternatives” that were created by little ones. “One of my favorites comes from a 2-year-old boy who referred to his older brother, ‘Nathan’ as ‘Nafano’ because he said that ‘Nafano’ sounded better. I also enjoyed hearing a child playing with a Sesame Street play set refer to both Bert and Ernie as ‘Bernie’”, revealed Dr Paul.
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Henry Cheves 4 years ago
In my school, it was always hand satanizer. This was done on purpose.
Callista pierce 4 years ago
i used to call it san hanitizer, but i also used to call seat heater heat seaters, so dont trust me
GoldfishCrackers 4 years ago
Same at our house with a 2 1/2 year old! I thought it sounded accurate!
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Robert T 4 years ago
This would be normal in my house. My gf calls toes fingers or foot fingers when she can't remember the word. Aparently they use the same word in Polish and as her English is way better than my Polish, I'm not complaining. Plus it's kind of cute. She's just a bit more than 7 though!
GirlFriday 4 years ago
My niece referred to them as her "market toe," "home toe," "roast beef toe," etc. I still call them that because I can't think of any cuter way to refer to your toes.
Marco Conti 4 years ago
Incidentally, in Italian that's exactly what it's called. Thumb = Pollice, Big Toe = Pollice (dei piedi - of the foot, but often it's implied)
Isabel Barrera 4 years ago
In spanish is the same word "dedos", for fingers and toes. "dedos de la mano" "dedos del pie".
TTorrest Author 4 years ago
This would've made sense to my kid, who as a toddler called toes "foot fingers."
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NsG 4 years ago
My family have never let me forget that when I was five or six I couldn't say "binoculars", they were "big knockers". Its been 35 years...
James016 4 years ago
My son repeatedly says that mummy has boob nipples and daddy has nipple boobs.
Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
😂😂😂 sad thing is I can understand exactly why and he's not wrong
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GoldfishCrackers 4 years ago
At our house blueberries are called “boobies”. Makes for interesting breakfast conversation…
Dani Alexander 4 years ago
My sister calls boobs “milk holders” and honestly when you think about it it makes sense
Sarcasm Queen 4 years ago
My cousin once said to my aunt that he wanted big muscles like hers on his chest when he grew up...
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Robert T 4 years ago
I call the hair on my arms and legs fur. It is fur. What else would it be?
Ross Warren 4 years ago
My daughter is almost 4 years old. She pets my arm hair and tells me how soft it is. I guess that's what I get for using a 3-in-1 shampoo and conditioner + body wash.
Monic Krugell 4 years ago
When my boys were small they called my husband's beard his face-thorns. :-)
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Emmie Jensen 4 years ago
When I was little, apparently I said "soupcase" instead of "suitcase"
ThatOneWriter 4 years ago
My son called water "Wadee" for like two years and I was /MAD/ when he figured out it was "water" lol
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Terilee Bruyere 4 years ago
Hah! My son said this as well, if he had runny stool that went everywhere..
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K W 4 years ago
Lol. This is like when my kid asked who the 1st mother was and I tried to explain mammals but he thought I said mammoths so for a long time he thought humans came from a matrilineal line of fuzzy elephants.
Bexxxxx 4 years ago
Wait, we don’t come from a matrilineal line of fuzzy elephants?!
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John G 4 years ago
Not being rude, but that seems like very sloppy parenting. Why would you not correct her? This could lead to problems in later life, and confusion for the child.
juice 4 years ago
i assumed the parent is exaggerating because they think the mistake is adorable (as is the case with a lot of these posters. they say similar things but i doubt most actually mean them). so as long as it gets corrected before it could cause actual problems, i think letting something small like this slide is fine
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Binxyminxem 4 years ago
When I was little I used to call waiters servants, I was so embarrassed when my mum told me at an older age, I'd completely forgotten!
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a_smol_berry 4 years ago
It’s C3PO. :) No worries, I had to ask my brother.
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Vivian Orr 4 years ago
Which disgusting vegetable? Surely you don’t mean broccoli!!! I practically live on that. Now if u were speaking of cauliflower, ok, nevermind.
Joshua Seaman 4 years ago
Fun fact: cauliflower and broccoli are actually the same plant. As are cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, and brussels sprouts. brassica-o...f94dcb.jpg 
a_smol_berry 4 years ago
I have really bad sensory overload with certain textures and I’ll try to eat it but end up spitting it in my hand, throwing it away and taking a walk outside, then come back and attempt to eat.
Cheryl Ramsay 4 years ago
Cooked cauliflower is bland and blah. Try it raw in a salad! Yummy and no gas!
Jenn Aquino 4 years ago
My children used to call cauliflower "albino broccoli"...so I can definitely relate.
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RandomHumanBean 4 years ago
my siste used to call them "bubbies" and a bit later on she called them "bubberies" it was sooo cute
Kelli Girouard 4 years ago
Mine too. In the produce section, one time, he yelled out "I love boobies!" You're not alone, son! ;)
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V Martinez 4 years ago
I mean, I enjoy listening to a good bugler. The snack is also quite tasty! ;)
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cookie panda 4 years ago
wait wait wait hold on have I been saying it wrong my ENTIRE LIFE and nobody told me?
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BusyLizzy 4 years ago
My little one calls dandelion seed heads "dandypuffs" and now I can't call them anything else.
Kat Sotiriou 4 years ago
My 3 year old calls cucumber "Kumbaya's" and it cracks me up everytime
J.L. Martin 4 years ago
My daughter called pepperoni pizza "pepper-only pizza" and over a quarter of a century later, I still use that phrase weekly when possible
Binxyminxem 4 years ago
Awww cute! My dad said when in Italy don't ask for pepperoni pizza, cause they'll think you mean pepper-only pizza. A friend of his learnt this the hard way lol, apparently salami is the way to go!
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Caroline Stoltzfus 4 years ago
My two year old coined the term "whobody"...as in "Whobody left this here?" And honestly, it's pretty great.
memyselfandI 4 years ago
Apparently when I was a kid and I was doing “what sounds do animals make” I would always say “roar” like “wo-wa”. It was apparently adorable and I still do it sometimes when I feel like it.
Stacy Parker 4 years ago
My step-son called his slippers his night-sandals, 27 years later he still hasn't lived it down.
BusyLizzy 4 years ago
My little one calls dandelion seed heads "dandypuffs" and now I can't call them anything else.
Kat Sotiriou 4 years ago
My 3 year old calls cucumber "Kumbaya's" and it cracks me up everytime
J.L. Martin 4 years ago
My daughter called pepperoni pizza "pepper-only pizza" and over a quarter of a century later, I still use that phrase weekly when possible
Binxyminxem 4 years ago
Awww cute! My dad said when in Italy don't ask for pepperoni pizza, cause they'll think you mean pepper-only pizza. A friend of his learnt this the hard way lol, apparently salami is the way to go!
Load More Replies... Caroline Stoltzfus 4 years ago
My two year old coined the term "whobody"...as in "Whobody left this here?" And honestly, it's pretty great.
memyselfandI 4 years ago
Apparently when I was a kid and I was doing “what sounds do animals make” I would always say “roar” like “wo-wa”. It was apparently adorable and I still do it sometimes when I feel like it.
Stacy Parker 4 years ago
My step-son called his slippers his night-sandals, 27 years later he still hasn't lived it down.
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