Are there any words you couldn't say or mispronounced as a child?

When I was very little I could not prounounce the letter L well. My father’s name is Larry, and I would call him Daddy Arry. I also had trouble with grandma and said mema (me-ma). I don’t remember any of it, I’ve just been told this.

I couldn’t/can’t say cinnamon, I still say cinaminum.
I also said lello instead of yellow.
Those are all I can remember right now.

Pasgetti. I still say it if I’m not thinking it through.

Probably not

Gramma was “Gamma”. And, I said “pasghetti”, too.

Quebec
I say it like ka-beck
I dunno how it’s pronounce and I won’t bother since I’m an American

I always thought “windshield wiper” was winchell wiper and I thought that “pedestrian” was Presbyterian… I thought it was so nice that there was a crosswalk especially for us since we were Presbyterian!!

Yellow. I said “yeyyo”. I also couldn’t say “Ainsworth” (the street I grew up on). But I guess considering the first, that one’s not too surprising.

I have speech impediments, though I’ve minimized/eliminated many of my problems. The was duh, and I had serious problems with r’s, which I still have to some extent in words like world and girl if I’m not paying attention to what I’m saying.

I couldn’t say guitar or funeral. I’d say ‘guigar” & foonyal.

I had to go to speech therapy, because I could not pronounce my “th’s.” So, three came out as free. I got over that pretty quick, but also had therapy for my R’s. I just could not pronounce them, and I know I started speech therapy in fourth grade.
I actually still have issues, and it makes me self conscious sometimes…but most people who know me, know I have issues. I cannot pronounce certain words. I’m trying to remember the main ones, but I usually don’t remember until I have to say them!
Oh, “familiar” you probably could pay me a million bucks and I still can’t pronounce it properly :(

I also said “lellow” instead of “yellow”.
“Swuck” was “truck”.
I had a stuffed skunk that I named “Kunk” because I couldn’t say “Skunk”.
Whenever my mom made “chicken cacciatore”, I’d think she was saying “Kitchen check-atorry”. That one still trips me up sometimes.

When i was two years old (i’ve been told) i couldn’t pronounce ventriloquist.

I had a hard time with hello. It came out sounding like fu-kyu.

My parents never took me anywhere.

I said dobozer for bulldozer and scabetti for spaghetti.

@casheroo I hate that word, “familiar”. Everybody on the planet pronounces it firm-iliar and I don’t get whyyyyyyyyyy.

And I hate poin-sett-IA I want to call it poinsetta.

@jbfletcherfan I’ve been mispronouncing it all this time?

I guess. So do I. I STILL call it poinsetta.

if someone was littering (aka throwing trash not in the garbage) they were actually glittering, according to my 3-year-old self.

@Sarcasm – I don’t pronounce it that way. I say “fa-miliar”. I also say “Feb-ru-ary”.

I’ll write out how I said it, then tell you the word.
clah-oood = cloud
ep-a-tunt = elephant

Then I mixed up cinnamon for cimmanon.

And I constantly confused veins and vines. I’d tell my mom all the time that I could see the vines in my arms.

I had three problem words. The first was factory: my parents have told me many, many times how one day I was very quiet (too quiet) because I was constructing an elaborate “balloon ackery” on my bedroom floor. The second was magician. The g always seemed to become an sh and the c a soft g. And finally, there was the word squirrel, which simply tied my tongue in knots.

OTOH, my brother said mazagine for magazine, and my sister liked pasghetti.

I still pronounce the word wash wrong, and I always have said “warsh” just like the rest of my family does.

@YARNLADY – That’s not wrong. It’s regional.

regionally wrong

haha i always said oven like oh-ven.

I couldn’t say “hamburger.” It was “hambooger” and I swear it wasn’t intentional.

I still have trouble with some words like “tastes.” It is the “sts” sound that gives me trouble. My “j“s also sound forced, like soft of stunted “d“s.

The amount of cuteness in this thread has reached critical mass.

And @Sarcasm I suppose I’m one of those people you hate. I say firmiliar. I know the “right” way to say it, but if I try to pronounce it any other way than it would naturally come out.. it’ll take me a second longer. Typically, this is alot more noticeable than my extra r that most people add anyway. I also say Febuary and.. “Reesees cups(/Reesees Puff cereal)”. Sue me.

Words starting with ‘f’ became words starting with ‘b’. Like boot (foot), bace (face)...

Buck?

Fuck.

Oh, that was so funny. =|