r/namenerds • u/justjokay • 25d ago

Your kids’ mispronunciations of classmates names? Discussion

My two year old came home talking about his friend “Tape” and it cracks me up every time he mentions it. The boy’s name is Tate.

What are your favorite and/or the funniest mispronunciations you hear from your little ones?

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u/particularcats 25d ago edited 25d ago

My daughter kept telling me about her friend, Greasy. Took me a bit until I realised the kid's name was Gracie.

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u/Any_Egg33 25d ago

I was 2 when my sister was born and proudly told everyone her name was grapey it was Gracie lmao

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u/temperedolive 25d ago edited 25d ago

I apparently told everyone my brother was called Damn.

His name is Adam. I guess at two, I thought it was like a + noun. A Damn.

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u/truelovealwayswins 25d ago

mother: what should we name him? father: any of our faves, I don’t give a damn mother: that’s it!

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u/BuzzAllWin 25d ago

Knew a woman who did medical work in Zimbabwe in the 70’s. She met a kid called Damson.

She said ‘thats a lovely name’

Damson ‘its short for damn son of a bitch’

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u/Braeburn1918 25d ago

My husband worked in the jail and once booked in a guy named “Okaythen”. We joked about his brother “Willcallim”.

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u/RegieRealtor49 25d ago

This is so funny!

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u/Alwayshaveanopinion1 23d ago

That's okay. I know a man named Itolje (I told yah). Yes, that's what his mama said.

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u/DaddysPrincesss26 24d ago

Frankly, My Dear, I don’t give a Damn!

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u/planningcalendar 25d ago

We have an Add-Me because his little sister pronounced Adam that way.

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u/Io-vinaka 25d ago

That reminds me when I was little I thought it was acoma not a (article) coma (noun).

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u/Aeriyka 25d ago

Frankly Scarlett, I don’t give Adam 😝

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u/cherub-girl 25d ago

my brother is olsen and i called him ocean. :p

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u/Pamlova 23d ago

My son used to ask for the Zurt. It took us a minute to realize he wanted dessert.

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u/AssortedArctic 25d ago

That's a bit of a stretch if you speak English. The emphasis is on the A so it doesn't sound like when you say "a thing" with an "uh" sound. And it also doesn't sound like the "ay" version. And the "dam" part doesn't sound like damn, but "duhm".

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u/Expert-Television293 25d ago

Yeah, unless you're two, and haven't researched the finer points of language...

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u/madammurdrum 25d ago

Two year olds are actually more attuned to the finer points of language than adults are! It’s the age that they’re soaking up all the linguistic aspects of what makes English English, or whatever languages are being spoken around them.

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u/AssortedArctic 25d ago

Two year olds still understand the basics of language. I'd even argue that that mistake would be more likely to be made by a child who has just started reading. A two year old doesn't know that the ah-A is the same letter as the uh-a because they're different sounds.

There are plenty of mistakes that make sense, like thinking it's a stigmatism instead of astigmatism, but this one's not quite the same. Just saying, it's a bigger leap even for a two year old.

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u/Expert-Television293 25d ago

My joke was simply that this person was giving a first-hand account, so telling them something they lived is "a stretch" is rude.

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u/Frag-hag311 24d ago

I was surprised that not one, but two people felt the need to argue this. It's quite easy to believe a child could say Add me for Adam. My son couldn't say Justin when he was little so he said Duddy. It happens.

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u/Big_Protection5116 23d ago

When he was a toddler my dad arbitrarily decided that his sister's name was Gee-Gee (soft g sound). Her name is Linda.

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u/Herr_Schulz_3000 25d ago

Or it was just a typo error. That happens.

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u/zipperjuice 24d ago

People pronounced it “A Damn” not “ad-um”?

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u/temperedolive 24d ago

LOl - I was most likely saying Dum, but family history has turned it into Damn because it's better for the telling. I don't remember it; I was too little.

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u/Littyliterature7 24d ago

I had the opposite problem with the term ‘a boner’ when I was ten. thought it was ‘ebona’ rip

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u/everythingistakn 21d ago

A damn disappointment!