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At age 6, funny twists on words my son still says
You gotta love kids and the stuff they say based on what they hear and how they put together a dictionary of stuff in the world.
Some of the following words are not only understandable, they actually make for a better choice than the original.
1. Webbins – He’s a boy and he’s 6, so as much as we’d rather he wasn’t continuously jumping on the furniture making ak-ak-ak noises, he likes things that explode. Hopefully, he’ll be a webbins inspector and not a webbins trader when he grows up.
2. Valentimes Day – Most kids say this one for a while and it’s very cute, summing up a period of time rather a specific day.
3. Moat control – Ah, some days I wish that my remote control actually had this functionality as well.
4. I “sawr” it and “sawl” it. Maybe it’s his East coast roots, one generation removed, but sometimes my son sounds like he’d be more comfortable in Havahd Yahd.
5. Hermos – I guess if it kept little girls warm, rather than drinks, it could be a “her-mos,” but in this case, he almost has it right.
And finally, and my favorite, “Canimals.” These, of course, are camels. We’ve been playing Indiana Jones Wii a bit since the holidays and the scenes with “canimals” get him quite excited.
Like a lot of things about your kids growing up, I regret not having written more of them down. But it’s impossible to capture it all. Instead, you have to enjoy being the moment with them, without taking time to scribble their latest antics into Twitter. Otherwise, you miss it all.
What are your favorite malapropisms from your own kids?
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