When You Were A Kid How Did You Say Spaghetti?

[orleans]

or how do your kids pronounce it?
or how have you heard it pronounced?

any other words that were mispronounced?

i've heard kids pronounce aluminum al-u-min-e-um

my daughter called spaghetti pagezzi
and she used to say girl with a british accent (maybe because she couldn't say it with a chicago accent?) it sounded adorable.

[auntAgonist]

1. I still say al u min e um

Born and raised in Scotland. Aluminum just sounds wrong.

aA

[PassingFair]

14. There actually two spellings.

British one has the extra "i".

Found this out after arguing with my English cousin
for an hour on the phone, we both grabbed dictionaries,
and found out we were both absolutely right.
(Just as we had each claimed...for being
an ocean apart, we have the same nasty
personality traits!)

On edit, here is some useless info on the difference...

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

[auntAgonist]

19. yes I used to spell it "wrong" in school (after we moved to Canada)

:rofl:

I love language.

aA

[Zavulon]

2. Pasketti

I never had a problem with "aluminum," though, since my parents simply told me it was "tin."

[Inchworm]

11. I still say pasketti for sport

:)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. No pasketti!...

hangaburger!

:evilgrin:

[orleans]

8. hangaburger? i love it! (never heard it before) n/t

[grasswire]

4. bisketti

not me, but someone in the family

[UndertheOcean]

5. Macarona

[MilesColtrane]

6. Busketti

I also called animals, "aminals".

[mitchum]

15. It was also "busketti" for me...

escalator was "avigator" and, for some reason, Quick Draw McGraw was "nees drop"

[Connonym]

7. I was one of those odd language savants that always said it correctly

btw, I guess it's very common to have difficulty with pronouncing r+l and r+d sounds like bird, word, girl, etc. Supposedly it's one of the more difficult sounds for kids to learn.

[Lyric]

9. My son said pusketti, but the most adorable thing

was the way he mispronounced "Grandma and Pappy" and "Gumball and Happy". :rofl:

[datasuspect]

10. spaghetti?

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

12. hmmm...

spah-get-tee :)

(But I'm Italian, so it's not that hard)

[PassingFair]

13. Piss-ghetti

...as bad as that sounds.

[suninvited]

16. I said spaghetti

the way it should be said.

My mother would have knocked me across a room if I mispronounced a word. She didnt want anyone thinking she was raising stupid or illiterate children was her explanation.

[BarenakedLady]

17. Spaetzle

[Aristus]

18. I pronounced it "Spaghetti". I used to look down my nose at kids who said "pahsketti".

I got beat up a lot... B-)

[bif]

20. My niece refuses to eat spaghetti. But if you call it pasta, she's okay with it!

[orleans]

22. pasta--the easy way to say it. lol. n/t

[applegrove]

21. Gheppi

[LeftyFingerPop]

23. Spagaughts.

[orleans]

24. anyone else? n/t

[yellowdogintexas]

25. my sister said "busgetti" but our favorite was "telemenish" for television.

47 years later it still makes me giggle

[clyrc]

26. My brother called it sketabee, for my sister it was more like

sgagetti.

[Perry Logan]

27. Scabetti.

[avasmom]

28. pasketti

i don't remember how i said it, but all of my children have pronounced it differently, including pasketti (ava) and skapetti (the twins).

[trof]

29. Our daughter said 'pusgetti'.

And 'brefftuss' for breakfast.
And when she was 3, her first 'Happy Birthday' to me was 'Happy Day You!'.

Can't PM you yet.
When you can PM, send email?
I'll keep you posted on condo situation.
B.

[Xipe Totec]

30. Just like it sounds - Espagueti

:hide:

[hvn_nbr_2]

31. I said spaghetti but I've heard "basketti". Temperature was my bugaboo.

I said "tentchapur" for the longest time and had a really hard time breaking that habit.

[KamaAina]

32. In-fin-IT-sim-al, MIZZ-uld

not in-fin-i-TESS-im-al or miss-LED.

Precocious little bugger, I was.

[Breeze54]

33. Franco American