I didn't have to dig back too far in the archives for something to share either. If you have little ones, these funny misunderstandings are a near daily occurrence.
Let me start by saying, it's amazing what the miss pronunciation of a few syllables can do when a toddler is still mastering the English language.
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One of the twins is really struggling with the mastering of the "tr" sound. When he pronounces "tr" words, it sounds more like a "f". Not a big deal when "tree" becomes "fee" and "train" becomes "fain", but such a big deal with some words. I've also found that, words ending in "p" such as "lump" and "bump" seem to currently have a silent "p" ending, so the sound more like "lum" & "bum".
As luck would have it, darling Declan demonstrated his speech issues at the store the other day. I had the twins and my daughter in tow. As we often do, she takes charge of one twin and I mind the other. While we were looking at something for a second, my daughter and her twin charge had gone across the aisle to the toys. From our viewpoints, Declan could see them and I could not. It seems they were both checking out some neat "dump trucks" which really had Declan excited. When asked where they had both gone, he shouted out exactly what they were doing while pointing too. He repeated it 3-4 times for me too, in case I missed it the first time.
There he stood pointing at them both and screaming, "Look at Dum _ucks! Look at Dum _ucks! Look at Dum _ucks!" People stared mouths open. People walked away heads shaking, but not this mommy. I laughed long and hard. It was a really nice dump truck, perhaps we'll need to add to our fleet when those 3rd Birthdays arrive late June.