Kim Wills wrote:He also couldn't say refrigerator for a while so sometimes I still might say "fridge-ee-ator" to him.
Oh, that reminds me that I said "free-idger-ator" as a little, but it didn't stick for whatever reason.
Tereza Okava wrote:...and had some real unique words. she said "anticues" for antiques, cue-pons for coupons, reseeps for recipes and, my favorite, oinkment for ointment.
I sometimes play with anti-cues as an alternate pronunciation, but it also doesn't stem from a child mistake. And if I'm understanding you right, "cue-pons" (or maybe queue-pons) is how I say that word and the most common alternate "coup-pons" sounds weird to me. Oinkment is fun!
Antiques reminds me of another one, though I was much older (9, I think) -- the first time I saw the name Albuquerque on a highway sign, I mispronounced it Alber-quee-quee and I now sometimes do that on purpose to be silly like Tereza's aunt. (which is pronounced ant
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