One of my kids calls water fountains water mountains.. I assume from just mishearing the word. The first time he said it I went to correct him and then I'm like it does look like a water mountain so fuck it we'll go with that. Now the whole family only refers to them us water mountains.

And oddly there is another misheard word another of my kids used that we've all adopted, this kid said his tshirt was skin side out instead of inside out. Again I went to correct him and thought no he is right too, so now clothes are skin side out or skin side in.

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also have a few of these. My favourite daughter when she was a toddler she used to call road trains "Big DIE!".

[–] WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favourite daughter

Busted

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Oops, I really messed up that sentence. Well, she is my favourite anyway 😁

[–] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

My family has one of those. Our oldest would say hanitizer instead of hand sanitizer. We started correcting him but eventually realized that it's more efficient and everyone knows what he's talking about. I actually use it outside the family too. No issues, only chuckles when I explain the story.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Hah, skin side out is good !!

[–] tomcatt360@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linguists call these eggcorns Here's a good video by RobWords with more examples.

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