What words did you mispronounce as a child?

I used to have lisp when I was a child so I mithpronouth all wordth with the letter S

 

Pretty much anything that wasn't pronounced the same way it was spelled. I also had a lot of trouble with R's.

 

I used to say cemetery as chemistry and monopoly as bonocoly. To this day I still struggle to say word with an sth in them, like anaesthesia.

 

The only one I can think of is "polka'mon".

And "ax" instead of "ask" .. but I think that's more of a black people thing, especially here. If we try to pronounce the word "ask" it's either going to sound like "ass" or "ax".

 

Vibrations as vibarations. At least I don't say library like lieberry.

 

That's how I say cucumber but with the second "u" as an "e" sound so it's more like kyu-kyember. I also have a lisp so if I'm not being careful I tend to pronounce my "s" as "th". I also have trouble with my "r".

In Spanish, which is my third language I'm glad that they have a lot of "th" sounds but I cannot roll my "r" for the love of all that is holy.

 

I always thought it was the Silver War when I was a kid.

 

World and squirrel, actually was sent to speech class because of it. I can now say them perfectly just don't ask me to say hollow and other such words. (I have no idea how to write the way I use to say them)

To this day people from the past will ask me to say World and Squirrel.....

 

I actually though my last name started with a 'T' and not with an 'H'

 

When I was really little, I knew both the word what the word "unique" means in speech, but there was also this mysterious word that I saw a lot in my books. I'd never heard it before so I decided to pronounce it "uhn-ih-kyu". :lol:

I also had a book which talked about the American civil war, and I was so confused as to what onions had to do with any of it ("The Onion was the force relocated to the north") hahaha

 

Mine is kind of a funny story. I'm hard of hearing, so when I learned the alphabet, I thought the letter w was said like debe-ew. I thought it was said like that for the longest time until I was 19 and I realized it was actually double u. That made so much more sense then some weird conglomeration of letters like debew or something.

 

Hermione's name!

 

I pronounced both 'nuclear' and 'prodigy' until literally only a few years ago, mainly because I had no idea I was saying either wrong!

I said nuclear as 'nu-cu-lar' and prodigy as 'progidy' - my brain had been persistently swapping syllables, it seems!

Luckily, I can say millennium, so that must count for something, right?

 

Yosemite - "Yo-sah-might"
Penelope - "Penny-lope"
Breakfast - "Breck-flist"
Fragile - "Frag-guy-el"
Island/Isle - " Is-land/Is-lay"
Computer - "Comp-utter"
Purple - "Pur-plea"

 

I used to pronounce Chauffer as "Chaffer" or "Shaffer"

 

I used to get mixed up on shoulder and soilder

 

Not entirely sure to be honest but I do know I have ALWAYS mispronounced seagull and the word ask.
- I am not sure how I say seagull wrong but my mom tells me I do whenever I say it and it always sounds like I am saying a** when I say "I need to ask you something" or anything similar to it.

 

I used to say mickey Donald's instead of McDonald's

 

I always said attention like tetention. Whenever I was sad or something I told my mom I needed tetention. I also still say library like libarry. I'm not good at Englishing.

 

I had trouble with the Letter L. I would say Wong instead of Long haha.

I also still to this day have trouble saying specific when i'm presenting something. I say Pacific...oopes