Some words are either too long or illogical for toddlers. Here is the start of a special on-line translation service for perplexed adults.

The worrying thing for a parent is remembering to use the 'grown up' translation when trying to hold a regular adult conversation!

abulub
aminals
Ass bursday
atetoes
bepooter
bepiano
bicits
biculls
bird flakes
bisgetti

boke
bolders
bufferfly
chicken in the box
chiffus
crip
cumbercues
dice
dink
diss
ezplaz
glubs
dweeble deez
fantascit
flying pan
ga-ga
gun gun
hairyplane
hamhigh
hoo-ha
hostibul
jymamas
key pooter
knee
knees
lellow
memember
mini-beavers
monkeys
mumuma
mungry
nanna
nicnic
nucky necker
no(w)
oberdair
onge / owiss
par carks / parkark
rocklit
(a) sit down
something in my hand
sooty florlors
spearmints
spiders wipe
too yous
tories
twos
U u ee
ully
umberbella/umbrolly
ush

vegable
vigenar
wac wac
wee room
wipe screamers
wish wish washers
wooden mouse
Zib zib

ambulance
animals
Happy Birthday
potatoes
computer
piano (she seems to have a b issue)
biscuits
bicycles
corn flakes (the picture on the box says it all)
confetti or biscuits (concerned about this little one being a flower girl)
bottle of milk
tea (as in builders tea)
butterfly
chickenpox
Christmas
a single crisp (he was just making sense of plurals)
cucumbers
bus
drink
milk bottle (from 'Do you want this?')
aeroplane
gloves
chips (from 'Would you like some of these')
fantastic
frying pan
grandma
bang bang (when playing cowboys)
aeroplane
handbag
sleep
hospital
pyjamas
computer
napkin
story time (sitting on Mummy's knee)
yellow
remember
Maltesers
'Those yucky things up your nose'
dummy
'I'm feeling a little peckish'
banana
picnic
double decker
snow
over there
orange
car parks
chocolate
a chair
snack
pretty flowers
experiments (as in spearmints on animals)
spider's web
birthdays
not political brainwashing but stories
two (it is a confused plural thing)
cup of tea
lovely
umbrella
fizzy drink (the sound that it makes when you unscrew the top)
vegetable (and I wish I could stop saying it)
vinegar
any kind of bird
living room (?)
windscreen wipers
windscreen wipers
woodlouse
Elizabeth (why do older sisters have such hard names - yes, this one is for all the great family misnomers xx)

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