{"id":13043,"date":"2016-10-25T17:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=13043"},"modified":"2016-10-25T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T16:37:37","slug":"spaghetti-car-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=13043","title":{"rendered":"Spaghetti car bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b07wsmrp\">Word of Mouth<\/a> on BBC Radio 4, they discussed the interesting words children come up with. They might attempt  say particular words but can&#8217;t quite manage all the sounds, or get them mixed up, sometimes with unintentionally funny results. They also get words mixed and muddled, or perhaps muddlixed.<\/p>\n<p>Can you guess the title of this post refers to?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an attempt at spaghetti carbonara.<\/p>\n<p>Other examples from the programme include: <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Snotrils (nostrils)<br \/>\n&#8211; Jumpolines (trampolines)<br \/>\n&#8211; Hippyhoppymus (hippopotamus)<br \/>\n&#8211; Hockle bockle (hot water bottle)<br \/>\n&#8211; Suggestive biscuits (digestive biscuits)<br \/>\n&#8211; Alligator (escalator)<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes these words get adopted as family words and continued to be used even when the children are adults.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t just happen to children though &#8211; adults also mix up their words sometimes. A few weeks ago, for example, at one of the choirs I sing in I mentioned to a friend that the song we were learning could do with some <strong>calligraphy<\/strong>. She looked at me a bit confused, then we realised that I meant <strong>choreography<\/strong>. Hilarity ensued.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any other examples?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent episode of Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4, they discussed the interesting words children come up with. They might attempt say particular words but can&#8217;t quite manage all the sounds, or get them mixed up, sometimes with unintentionally funny results. They also get words mixed and muddled, or perhaps muddlixed. Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}