h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My daughter when taking the standard test for entry into kindy was asked what a diamond was quick as a flash she responded very expensive

My 6 year old asked "Why are oranges called oranges?"

We looked at her, perhaps a little too patronising, and said "Because they're orange?"

She looked back, unruffled, and asked,
"Then why is a banana not called a yellow?"

That shut us up!

we went to a sewing exhibition on saturday.
emily(4) was rooting though a box of cross stitch kits with pictures of winnie the pooh and a letter for the initial of peoples names.......

we found most letters and she came up with some word to correspond to that letter, but we couldnt find an 'E'.
we did find an 'H' for my name and when i asked her what it was for, she said....... house (doh)

Lovely stories! *Laughing quietly so as not to wake Fifi*

My little Boy was leafing through the swimwear section of a clothing catalogue this morning. I ask you, what is it with blokes? He's two years old!

Anyway, after a while, Boy announced, 'I like those ladies, Mummy.' 'Do you, Darling?' I replied. 'Yes,' he said, 'I want them to come and play at my house. I want to stroke their tummies'.

Aaaahhh!

Peanut is 2.5. The other day on the way home from Daddy's softball practice she was moving her arms around while in her carseat. She said, "Mommy, I doing yuckysizes!"

When I was little I'd call soft drink pssss! cos of the sound it makes when it opens

I've seen a soft drink called 'pschitt' for the same reason.

" 'I like those ladies, Mummy.' 'Do you, Darling?' I replied. 'Yes,' he said, 'I want them to come and play at my house. I want to stroke their tummies'.

Aaaahhh!"

Yeah, "aaah". Until he tells you he means stroke them *from the inside*.



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I used to do the same thing.

My youngest couldn't say 'Dundee' biscuits. She called them Dusty biscuits, because of all the sugar on them.

She also called do'nuts Dusty Buns.. Aaaahh, sweet memories

When I was little I was really into dinosaurs (as small boys tend to be) and had many, many pictures books which I would gleefully read from... when my parents took me to the Natural History Museum for my fifth birthday we discovered my brother (Two and a half) had picked up on some of the dinosaur stuff and was excitiedly pointing at the skeletons on display and shouting "Tops" and "Sawwus" at the top of his voice.

My cousin apparently called orange juice "ronjon juice" and sausages "chochiches". I reportedly called hospital "hostipal".

My stepbrother was being angsty one day so I told him to behave. He responded "I'm *being* have!"

My middle son has a lisp and when he was very young he a cuddly snake, he must have been aware he could not pronounce 's' properly, so used to call it 'nakey.

Odd names for things?

When I was first talking, every now and then I would get excited when we went out, and yell "BANNACOO-COO-COO!!!"

It took quit some time - months - befoe my parents made the connection. Bannacoo-coo-coo = Fire Engine.

Of course. So obvious. Why?

They saw me watching Trumpton, and as the firemen lined up outside their engine, the role-call went "Hugh, Pugh, Barney, McGroo...." and a it did, I joined in, "Bannacoo-coo-coo...."

I *did* say it was when I was just learnig to talk....

When my nephew was just about getting his words in some form we stopped at a dinner and asked what he wanted: Hamberger and bench pies peas!
Still today we call hamburgers, hambergers

My daughter was late in learning to pronounce the letter L. She said it as a W. Her best pronouncement was "Wook at the wovewy wowwipop!"

Try having a conversations with an 18 month old.

VC always called a cup 'up'.

One day she was refusing her lunch, because she wanted a 'up'!!

"you and a drink?" and offered her the cup of milk..

"No! No gink of mink!! UP!"

After some 20 mins of questions and answers of 'NO!' We finally sorted it out:

She wanted an Egg in an Egg CUP!!

A friend's two-year-old son has recently started walking around with a plastic cup saying 'duppadee!' it took ages for them to work out what he meant until he pointed at an actual cup of tea and it all became clear.

It's a family story that, when I was 5 and my brother was little enough that his arms weren't quite fully under his control yet, we were over at my grandma's. T's hand ended up in Mom's blouse. No problem, nothing embarrassing--until I said, 'That's OK, [stepfather] does that all the time!'

i was playing games with 'E' and she decided that as she was the biggest, that she would go first.

now she is 4 and she is 'normal' child height and size.
i am early 50's and a larger lady.

i did sort of struggle to understand her logic, which she has loads of usually. so how on earth she decided that she was the biggest