Malapropisms
OK, this should be a fun one! I just learned a term for something I'm painfully familiar with but didn't know what to call it. It's "Malapropism" and I learned what it meant from a delightful little book called "Tales of a Crazy Pastor's Wife" by Laurie Berry Clifford and Margie Berry Fogal. (Thank you for sending it, Margie! I loved the cards from the Believing God girls!!) I'll offer their definition of it: "Malapropism (n): The unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase; the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong on the context." They throw a couple of examples on the table like "polo bears" and "neon (aka: nylon) stockings." One of the authors identifies herself as an avid malapropist and explains that, when she was a child, she used "underpass" for "underpants." Killed me. I know we have some malapropists out there (or KNOW SOME!) and I'm dying to hear from you. Keep it short so we can read them all and CLEAN. Let's hear it, Siestas!
Heading out first thing in the morning to Minneapolis where I'll meet up with Trav and the team for a Living Proof Live event. Please pray for the Spirit of Christ to fall in great affection and great anointing. I can't wait to see you Minnesota girls! And I was devastated to hear that it is humid there, too. I had such HIGH (no pun intended) hopes. No matter. I'm heading north anyway. Hair today. There tomorrow.
I love all you guys so much.
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My 7 year old daughter LOVES Caesar salad. The other night she asked if she could please have some more "Q-tips". She meant "croutons" of course, but we all had a great laugh around the table anyhow. :)
we love you too Beth!
When my daughter got up from sitting on the couch in shorts with her legs tucked up under her, she wondered what those strange lines and patterns were on her legs. I told her the couch fabric had left indentations on her skin and they'd soon go away. Now whenever it happens she calls everyone's attention to her 'invitations'.
BETH: Oh I love this fun post!!!
My oldest son and I have a running fit when someone commits malapropism and we crack up laughing, look at each other and say "so close, so close!"
How about the guy who ordered a "seizure salad with extra
coupons?"
Love ya so much!
Georgia Jan Morton
BETH: Oh I love this fun post!!!
My oldest son and I have a running fit when someone commits malapropism and we crack up laughing, look at each other and say "so close, so close!"
How about the guy who ordered a "seizure salad with extra
coupons?"
Love ya so much!
Georgia Jan Morton
my very-pregnant sister called and said,
"we're headed to the hospital. i'm having contraptions."
[love that girl!]
Chester Drawers= Chest of Drawers.
This is one I used myself until about a year ago when I realized I was pronouncing it wrong. :)
Rachael from SD
I was a nurse working in the hospital with a very elderly man--a true gentleman. He delicately described his problem as having to do with his "undercarriage".
When my son was little I asked if he wanted a grilled cheese for lunch. He politely asked when he got to have boy cheeses because he didn't like girl cheeses anymore.
My husband is a malapropist of the highest order. This has got to be my favorite example.
One day he was talking about people in third-world countries and kept calling them pheasants rather than peasants.
He doesn't like being corrected, of course, but I had to on this one. I couldn't let him go out in public saying that the pheasants in third world countries need our help.
Nancy
I am working on our Siesta cookbook and came across this one: stocks of celery. That one made me smile!
Praying for everyone in MN, MN! (that sounds a lot like M&M's to me). Where are Sophie's Pink and Chocolate Brown M&M's when I need 'em?
The verbose verbal cousin
of Mrs. Malaprop
is the man who created
the verbal flip flop.
He'd say one sound later
and one sound sooner,
And his name was really
William Archibald Spooner.
A Reverend by trade,
a linquist to be heard
once called "The Loving Shepherd"
instead a "Shoving Leopard."
I was a nurse working in the hospital with a very elderly man--a true gentleman. He delicately described his problem as having to do with his "undercarriage". Yeah, I understand a bit of droopage in the old undercarriage myself!
I worked with a kindergarten student who had a tendency to talk highly of himself, so I explained what bragging was and how we should try not to do that.
The next time I saw him, he said, "Miss Kristin, aren't you proud of me? I wasn't gagging today!"
When I was a little girl and we would sit down to play a board game I would ask my mom to "Please read the constructions" (instructions of course is what I meant)
And my 8 year old niece will often ask her dad "Does Aunt Amy and Uncle Brian still live in a compartment?" since we live in an apartment!!
Oh my golly! My mother is a malopropist! She will be so happy to hear about this. We're never quite sure what the "aviance" (ambiance) will be when Mom is setting up for a party or how well the "keller" (color) will turn out when she decides to paint a new wall. We never eat asparagus in her home - it's always azpergrass. I could go on all day. We have even collated a dictionary with her little malopropisms in it! I'm emailing her next...
My just turned 5 year old daughter has several but my favorite is "sun scream". It just evokes a funny mental picutre for me every time she says it.
Can't wait to hear more,
Janet NC
I immediately thought of my young son who excitedly answered me when I asked him what kind of animals Noah had on the ark. He said "male and e-mail (instead of female)". Yes, he is growing up in the age of technology. It sounded SOOO cute coming from a 4 year old!
I don't know if it counts but my daughter, Angela, waters our neighbors plants everyday and she says she's going over to plant the garden everyday. It took me a long time to figure it out. Just a couple weeks ago actually. I knew she was helping Jackie with her garden, but when her "planting" the garden continued into the summer I started to get confused, cause I said, "It's way past planting season. You must be doing something else with the garden." I'm not a gardener, but I know that no one plants anything in the middle of the summer. I'm not a gardener, partially cause I'm lazy and partially because I'm very allergic to pollen. I can barely stand the plants that grow outside anyway. I certainly couldn't enjoy being with them. It's such a shame, cause they really are pretty. My kids bring me flowers and I'm like, "That's nice, but could you please take them outside away from me." That is in between sneezes I say that. Actually, I'm not sure what it is I'm allergic to. I always assumed it was the pollen, but they brought Roses from the Rose bush in the back and those didn't bother me. Dandelions and whatever they bring from Jackie's garden bother me. They only bring flowers from Jackie's garden with her permission, I assure you. I made sure of that. Anyway, that's all for now.
when i was little i thought our chimney was a "chimley". and i didn't know a "chester drawers" was actually a chest of drawers until i was in college..
A few weeks ago in our (Baptist) Sunday School class, we were discussing the topic of talking about God when you woke up, lay in bed at night, etc., like the old law said you should do. The question was asked if we were to take that literally. In the heat of the moment, I shared that back in those days they literally tied "prophylactics" on their heads as to keep the word of God near. Of course what I meant to say was phylacteries(sp?). Needless to say, the class roared and my husband's face turned white and I knew I had made a huge mistake!! Thank you Jesus that you don't hold that completely innocent malapropism against me!! I can't say the same for my class, it still comes up every once in a while!
Not sure if this qualifies, but it's still funny. When I was 12 or 13 years old, I had to read part of the lesson in Sunday School. The sentence was: "After the lesson, the teacher passed out cider and donuts." HOWEVER, I read it as "cigars and donuts". It was hard to continue the class after that because everyone was laughing so hard, and trying not to picture Sunday School kids smoking cigars and eating donuts.
Love to all...
Betty in Laurinburg, NC
Well, first of all I can't leave a message without saying...We got our Scripture Verse Competition, Beth care package yesterday!!! I don't want to make anyone feel bad by saying how wonderful it was (is), but THANK-YOU, THANK-YOU, THANK-YOU!!! The Sheridan Wyoming siestas were just giddy as we had to call a special meeting to open our boxes. We so totally love you!
Second. I played Mrs. Malaprop in a high school play!!!!! She's a character from the play "The Rivals". What a fun part that was! And since I have absolutely no problem making a fool of myself, I played it up BIG!
Right now, the only malapropism that comes to mind is a friend of mine who thought the hymn said "Lead on oh kinky turtle" (And in case you don't know, it should be "king eternal").
Bless your time in Minnesota. Don't let the mosquitos carry you off.
Melana in Wyoming
Beth, We are a family of malapropists! When my daughter was 6 years old, she was having a sneezing fit. She looked up at me and said, "Mommy, I God bless you'd a bunch!" It took me a minute to realize that she had heard us say "God bless you," every time someone sneezed, for so long she thought that was what it was called! It broke my heart when she learned the real name and quit calling them "God bless you's."
Burger chain "Whataburger" I always thought it was "Water Booger"
My kids and I enjoyed watching American Idol this season. My seven-year-old, Nick, would beg to stay up past his bedtime, on a school night, to see who was going to get "exterminated".
My sweet German mother in law went to be with the Lord in 1999 and during her lifetime, oh my, did she mangle some sayings! Two that were just precious... when praying, in all reverence, she referred to our Father as "God All-Mikey" and I like to think that He, knowing her precious heart, got a kick out of it too. Another favorite--she'd invite us over for dinner because she was making "chicken chests" (breasts made her blush).
A little boy who was a friend of the family called fig newtons - pig neutrons!!! I thought that was a scream so now I eat 'pig neutrons' on a regular basis!!
Leah
I was told I had a malapropism and after doing some research I took some antibiotics and it cleared it right up.
I had a friend from Brooklyn, NY who had a friend who's doctor told him he had a goiter. And asked his friend what that was. And being a rough neck construction guy, he replied, 'yea, it's one of them supporting beans to constructing buildings." (he meant girder)
idiot synchronizes
Hi Beth,
Adam, brought sin into the world, which is so sad, you see. Sadducee.
Kim
I am a teacher, so I hear a million of them! (Kids say the darnedest things.) The most recent that I can think of was right before one of our "Wear Your Favorite Team Jersey" days. One of my boys was bragging about how Pittsburgh was his favorite team, and how he was going to wear "Hamburger's" shirt!!! I asked politely, "Roethlisberger?"--to which he responded, "Yeah, but it looks like hamburger to me!"
My brother-in-law is, unknowingly, the master of malopropisms. We say them all the time just to make ourselves laugh.
A few examples...
"defend for myself" in place of fend for myself
"crime and Shane" instead of cryin' shame
"conveniency store" rather than convenient store
Also, I'm told that when I was little I would sing Away in a Manger by saying, the "catalog is blowing" rather than the cattle are lowing.
Too funny! Thanks Beth!
Neon stockings! HAHA. I was a teen in the 80s and think I remember some real neon stockings!
Just wanted to say I'm praying for you as you travel and that God will take precious care of His children this weekend. Blessings.
My brother was telling me about his recent colonoscopy and saying he didn't have any "pileups" instead of polyps! LOL!!!
preposition instead of proposition...ie. "I have a preposition for you." I use that all the time. :-)
I have a friend who just returned from vacation with her husband and six kids. While in the car, she continually told her husband, "Let me do the narrating; you do the driving." After the look on his face told her he wasn't catching on, she realized she meant "navigating." Love you Siestas!
tonight as we were picking out shampoo my daughter yells I want that poo poo! That poo poo!!
My husband says especially like eggspecially. DRIVES ME NUTS!!!
Hi Beth,
Keeping with the, "hair" theme, "when I get up in the morning my hair looks like it raised cain at night."
Canaanite.
Kim
Oh I must add that my daughter who just turned 3 is saying Ha-Shem after the lesson on Patriarchs! CRACKS ME UP!!!
The best one I can think of is rock-n-rollie which was my daughter's word for guacamole when she was about 2 or 3.
Beth, there's always the good ole "prostate" or "prostrate" confusion :) I'm not the guilty party on this one, but I sure hear it a lot.
Beth,
Here's one my dad used along time ago when when he told me and my sisters to go to bed.
Shadrach, Meshach, and to bed we go.
This is a tradition I have passed on to my family.
Kim
I just had to insert my two-cents' worth on this topic and share my latest malapropism with you. When I was describing my workout to a friend, I told her I "push metal." What I meant was "pump iron!" Good grief! I'm glad you share the humor in this sometimes embarrassing habit!
Oh, Y'all, these are so funny! I loved the seizure salad!! Sounds like something my grandmother used to say! My Pappaw used to call a Bull Dozer a Bull Nozure and we still call them that.
My British friend used to race in the kitchen and tell her mother she was ravishing at lunch instead of ravenous.
When we were little, one of my sisters used to say "good grieth" instead of "good grief" and she would get mad at us if we tried to correct her.
I've also called the card table a cardboard table.
My 2 1/2 year old daughter calls the trash can the "cash change". I thought about it, and it sort of makes sense.
I have two…
Flaming yon- Filet mignon
I had to really listen to my sister on that one she would say “Flaming Yon” so quickly that I thought I heard her wrong. We still laugh about it.
I have to confess to mine when I was little and up until about 10 years ago I thought it was “Dawn-zer light” not “Dawn early light.” It like I’m looking for the ninth reindeer.
Bev
Cadillac, MI
My husband was teaching a Sunday School lesson years ago to a singles class and the lesson was on sexual immorality. He must have said sexual immortality ten times before everybody broke down completely!!! Can't wait to worship with you in San Antonio Beth!!
Oh Beth this will be fun, can't wait to read what Malapropisms everyone has, here's one from long ago: My son had terrible allergies and I caught him using his sleeve when he'd sneeze. Once i said "Let's not use your sleeze, now go get a tissue" My sister said I said it so fast it sounded like Let snot.....
My grandpa is a retired pastor. Once when he was doing a baby dedication, he commented that the baby had been born "immature", of course he meant "premature". I'm sure my grandma had a hard time holding it together for that one! Malapropisms can be so hysterical!
okay...I have one. My best friend Sarah is notorious for...well, whatever you called it.
Sarah came home from work one day and said, "One of the stylists at the salon is being ridiculously "abstinent" over (a particular matter), and just not being reasonable!" She was all twitterpated and didn't know what to do.
Abstinent! She meant "obstinate", of course. She's 32 years old. Not 7. Heehee. Good times...
We have humidifiers in each of our bedrooms, including my 3 year olds room. About 5 weeks ago I gave birth to his little brother and now whenever my baby cries, my 3 year old runs to find his pacifier which he calls his "humidifier"!
You can imagine the disappointment on my son's friend Andy's face when we sang the song "In the Garden" and he realized that "And-y walks with me, And=y talks with me..." were not the correct words to the song!
We have a few that the kids used when they were little that are still part of our family vocabulary. Did you know that people look at you really funny when you say Windex Card for index card? Or Vanilla Envelope for manila envelope? Our latest, because it's green and she doesn't like it (must get that from the Yankee side of the family!): Guaca Moldy for guacamole.
Beth, I've been dreaming for months of somehow making it up to Mpls for this LPL. It's not that far, I lived there long ago for 7 years, I think I know someone who would find room for my sleeping bag on their living room floor, I would dearly love to be on-site for the teaching and the worship...so many reasons that the Target Center would be a great place for me this weekend!...but my mom-job will be keeping me here in Sioux City instead.
I will be keeping you and the others there in prayer...trying to avoid the pity parties...maybe someday I'll get to go!
May He bless your team and your efforts richly; give you great time with Him; keep filling you with His joy...
-- Alyson
My 2 year old puts on her "bathing soup" when we go to the pool!
My best friend's little boy told people that his uncle was in the OLD NAVY!!!
Blessings,
Jenn
Beth,
I love this post, as I read what the siesta's are coming up with I am laughing out loud, it feels good. My grandmother is 90 years old and has a few;
"Its a big world" and
"Toys R You"
We love her and laugh with her.
Our son was 4 years old at the time that my husband and I were able to take a trip to New York. When we would call at night to check up on him he would always chime in "Mommy please bring me back something from New Nork"
I miss those times.
God bless you and the LPM team as you head out for a Mighty Work of our God. Be well, and thank goodness for hair products and hair clips (up do).
Love you,
Celeste
We were at Church on a Sunday evening singing some old standards, a very loud 5 year old who wanted to make sure he was heard sang he own verse to Onward Christian Soliders his went like this: "On My Christmas Shoulders" I guess he thought Santas bag was too heavy!
Love you Beth!
My son says he is playing his "Rock a roll guitar" and he loves to eat "peetya" (pizza). I also heard a woman say one time that she thought she was having "Briggs and Strattons" (braxton hicks) contractions.
okay- 2 real fast
I said when talking about getting through some paper work for my preschool, there is a lot of yellow tape to go through. It is actually red tape! And making homemade choc. chip cookies the other day my dd said I'll get the "all proposed flour"!
So many, it's hard to recall them all........
I remember singing "He is our Peas," rather than "He is our peace" many Sundays when I was little.
Always thought the "Yoke" was "Yolk", as in egg yolk...which added a whole new meaning to Matt 11:30, "For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Finally got that one straight after going through Breaking Free this last semester!
Montgomery Ward was "Monkey Wards" and Whataburger was "Waterburger" (still having a hard time breaking that habit!)
And these days my daughters call their swimming suits "swimming soups" makes me smile every time!
My girlfriend's daughter tells her mom to put on her "neighborhood" when she wants her hood on her jacket pulled up...She is now 4 1/2 and her mom has never corrected her because we all think it is so cute...We do think she better before she goes to school!
These are hilarious!
Annette
When my husband was little he was once listening to a catholic radio program. They were saying the Hail Mary prayer. He thought they said "Fruit of the Loom, Jesus, instead of "Fruit of thy womb, Jesus!!!!His mom still cracks up to this day when she tells that one.
My dear Grandma used to say Specific Ocean instead of Pacific Ocean! I never corrected her for fear of being repromanded for "correcting an adult" (!), but man, I had to bite my tongue and try not to giggle out loud!
I sure do miss her and her silly sayings!
My mom always mixes things up pretty good...
She used to say two things that just stick in my head -
Instead of "Shoot fire and save the matches..." She would say, "Well, shoot a monkey..."
I don't know what the poor monkey did, but he always got shot when something went wrong around the house.
The other one was when she felt like someone was beating up on her with their words... she said, "Well, you don't have to bow breat me."
She never sang the right words to songs, and is still perfectly content to never know the truth - so we don't tell her!
My father's favorite example of this is from a book where a child was saying the Pledge of Allegiance - the title of the book was "I fed a pidgeon to the flag..."
Okay I'm signing out before I tell on myself a little.
Blessings.
When my oldest son was very young my husband was trying to put something together. My son ran in at one point and told me that daddy was having trouble with the "destructions".
It stuck and we have used that one ever since.
A friend of my mom always says that men with grey hair looked so designated
(she means Distinguished.)
Makes me roll on the floor every time.
My mom always uses the word "flusterated" instead of frustrated. My sister and I just look at each other and smile. This is one of her many malapropisms. We call them "Mimi-isms". She is 80 years old. I know after she is gone, they will all be precious to us.
Full adult grown sister, when questioned about her salad choice for lunch, responded,
"I need a little cartilage for my disgestive tract."
I think we all know what she meant.
peace~elaine
So...I have been a lurker for a while now...but I just HAD to comment on this post! I think we need to know where the term "malapropism" comes from seeing that "seista" is now a household word! There is an 18th century play called "The Rivals" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. There is a character called Mrs. Malaprop, who is the matriarch of the family. She is forever misusing words and expressions! It is a hoot! Check it out! (of course it may be just a hoot to me and no one else seeing that I am a professional actress and teach university theatre and I am in to that stuff! LOL) I must share a family fav of my late grandmother who was our "Mrs. Malaprop" She asked one time at a picnic if we would please pass her the Don Juan mustard! Of course she ment dijon! I LOL everytime I think about it! SO many more that I could share! Be blessed sweet siestas! Glory to His name!
Ok, I have several of these from my young age to present. It proves to me that I am very phonetically based in my speech and visual in correct spelling.
Age 5: At a restaurant I would order salad with "Ten thousand island dressing." Remember way back when Thousand Island dressing was the only really known dressing.
Age 8: "I half to do something." Always thought "have" was pronounced and said as above.
Age 17: I was embarrassed to learn from my high school sweetheart, that everytime I mentioned a "fire hydrogen" instead of a "fire hydrant", he and friends would crack up. They didn't have the heart to tell this straight A student that she was a nut.
Have many more, but want to keep this short.
My dearest Beth - this North Dakota DQ Nana will hopefully be in the front row in Minneapolis. Have a safe trip and I can't wait to hear your message!! Love, Laurie
During one of my pregnancies, my husband bought a new lawn mower. Later that week, my doctor asked how I was feeling. I responded, "Fine...except I seem to be having more Briggs-Straton contractions!" He laughed and said, "No..that's the lawn mower Mike bought...you are having Braxton Hicks!"
I don't say them but I type them a whole... hole...HO lot.
Blessings.
At the very end of a beautiful wedding (the mayor's daughter, btw), the very elderly pastor said, "The bride and groom would like to invite everyone out to enjoy their 'conception'"!!!! He meant "reception". lol
I'm notorious for using malapropisms unintentionally.
* I once called a friend's cute, fluffy dog an appaloosa (lasaopso)
*My husband (an Air Force flyer) was mortified when I pointed to the white streaks in the sky created by aircraft and said, Look at those beautiful entrails.
*I got into a heated discussion with someone who advocates civil liberties and blurted out, You Librarians are so stupid!
A high school student in my class arrived one morning shivering and said, "That Windshield factor must be really low this morning. I had ice on mine!" (wind chill factor)
Being the life-long Southern Baptist girl that I am, I remember as a young child singing with great gusto "Bringing in the sheets (sheaves)!!! as well as "Whosoever "Shirley" (surely) meaneth me" My son on return from preteen camp told me "Oh mom, it was so "expiring" (inspiring)!!
I have heard too many people say "Olds-timers" instead of Alzheimer's :-)
Beth, Just remembering the post when Keith said to you, “Well, isn’t that a cute little make-up frock.” (I think he meant smock.) Malapropism maybe? How cute!
We call my husband King Malaprop.
A few examples: The Short and Tall of It (aka long and short of it); It's like a duck out of water (aka fish out of water); What ever tickles your boat (aka tickles your fancy/floats your boat)...the list could go on.
When my now 16 year old daughter was 3, she would often declare that she "needed her private seeds!" (privacy!!)
:)
I was speaking to a friend one day, explaining that my sister was in the hospital. She had an emergency appendectomy. This friend's wife walked up and he began telling her that my sister had to have an emergency episiotomy. The look on his wife's face was indescribable...
I thought of some more...I live in west texas (Abilene) and as an educator, I had a lot of parent conferences...I don't know how many parents have told me how
"flustrated" their child is with school!
A little girl I used to babysit would always ask for her favorite movie, Poke-us-honkus (Pocahontas)
Beth!
Can't wait to see you in Minnesota. I'm straightening my hair tonight in hopes that it will stay semi-straight over the weekend. I hope I don't forget my flat iron. Jesus bless you with a fresh annointing from his precious Spirit. Have you read The Shack yet?
Love, Kath in WI
A few years ago it was brought to my attention that there is no such thing as Chester Drawers---it is actually Chest of Drawers....who knew? It makes sense, but who knew?
When I was a little girl at Sunday School, we learned the Lord's prayer, and I recited solemnly, "...and lead a snot into temptation."
My daughter loves miniature peanut butter cups, and has always called them "immature reese's cups."
Safe travel to MinneSODA. :) Sorry.
One year at Thanksgiving we were having a very heated political discussion and my cousin who was about 3 at the time was sitting very quietly at the table listening..I could see she was getting kind of agitated as the room got tenser by the minute...finally she cracked and said, "Welll, I'm a registered PUMPKIN." We still hoot about this...especially now since she's gone Democrat...:-)
Love you all,
Jill from PA
The big one at our house is piggy nails. My oldest daughter forgot that they were pony tails one day when someone asked her what kind of style she had. Ever since then that is what they have been.
Using the wrong words at the wrong time because English is not one's first language is something that happens quite often to me.
The old lady is so fragile (frail)
Your are so gracious (graceful) when you are dancing.
I grew up in South Africa so we were taught British English, which can lead to confusion in the US.
We would say when we intended to give someone a call on the phone, I'll give you a tinkle.
Imagine my poor pharmacist friend's red face when she told a patient, she'll give her a tinkle later...
I remember being a little girl and saying "spsgetti" and "hamakur". I also used to say "cholies" for my chonies!(spanish slang for underwear). My poor grandma who was very much caucasian always got my chonies and chongos (hair bands) mixed up! She would tell me to get some chonies so she could do my hair!
Beth...praying for your event this weekend! May the Lord give you safe travel and an audience of open ears and hearts!!!
My aunt thought the song "When the roll is called up yonder I'll be there..." was "When the roses crawl up yonder I'll be there."
This topic is a hoot!
One of my sons would always call motorcycles "lucky spots" I couldn't for the life of me figure out why... then I realized that every time we would be driving around in a parking lot we would say, "man they got a lucky spot"... and motorcycles always had the best parking places...
Will be praying for you all this weekend! : )
Hi Beth!
A group of 24 of us from Rochester MN has been looking forward to the Living Proof Live event tomorrow for a long time!! Lots of prayers being said for God to bless you and to touch SO MANY hearts through His word. It's amazing to talk about our experiences after being with you -- each person hears something special that is unique to her situation -- God is so good! Thank you for coming all the way up here.
I'm sorry if this posts twice -- I don't think the first one got the official "published" button.
What about when somebody fills a "subscription" instead of a prescription!!
My accident prone little one has seen the ER frequently. She just recently started saying hospital correctly, but I long for the days where she begged me not to take her to the hostibowl. She also loves to tell you about her visit to the Oil Surgeon.
Cindy in MI
My son has said (up until recently)
"soldiers" for shoulders. He would ask, "Mom, do you want me to massage your soldiers?"
How could I pass up that offer?
oh, and my son!
When he was ages 3-6ish, he could NOT get the difference between a 'ticket' and a 'check'. He'd see someone pulled over on the side of the road with a policeman and say, "uh oh mama, that person is getting a check! a wooo wooo!" and at the mall(pre debit card days for me), after about the second or third store, he'd always ask me, "mama, how many tickets are you gonna write today?"
When we first got married, my sweet hubby (who is a malapropist of EPIC proportions), informed me that something we were about to eat was a "delicatessen" in Europe instead of a delicacy.
And there are 6,578 more where that came from.
Be safe in your travels to MN and have a BLESSED time.
Lots of Love!
When I was around 3 or 4 we visited my parents friends and I played with their little girl. Years later (OK, like 30) we were talking about ridiculous baby names and I asked my mom why in the world those people named their daughter "Lasagna". She looked at me funny and quietly said, "Her name was Sonya" ... all those years I thought there was some poor girl in Texas named Lasagna!
my daughter, who is 7 now, STILL calls a semi truck a somebody truck. started when she was 2. and even though she knows better now, it's so engrained in her, she'll say "look at that somebody truck, I mean, semi truck!" and then she laughs at herself...
Each time we go to base, we stop at the gate for the mandatory ID check. My 2.5 year old boy asked what the airman was doing once and I explained. After we pass through now, he always comments on the guy checking "ideas" at the gate!
My mom was in town to help with the new baby and as my daughter bit her popsicle, Mom shivered and said, "Oooh, that sound gives me the cold shivers! Didyc (what they call my dad)does that, too." Later, my son (who was tickled by her shivering) asked, "Baba, does Didyc give you the "cold sugars?!"
T.G.
Just a few quick ones:
My son referring to our national anthem as the "Star Strangled Banner"
And in church while we were singing "I am a friend of God, I am a friend of God, He calls me friend," my daughter turned to me and asked "Mom, who's Fred?"
Praying for God's anointing tomorrow and Saturday -- see you there!
Can't wait to see you in Minneapolis tomorrow Beth. We are heading there from SD in the morning. Love you too!!
Angie in SD
Can't wait to see you!!!! Blessings from MN
I thought of two more from my daughter that I just loved-
*when riding around looking at Christmas lights, she told us she liked the one with the "activity" scene best.
*she learned to read at a very early age and was quite perplexed to see Max Lucado's name spelled wrong on the video because you know, "his name is Max Potato."
T.G.
Up until a year or so ago, my daughter used to call a man's mustache and beard~a mushbeard. O so cute!
Love you!
Anna in MO
My physician husband has gotten a few of these in the office.Examples of terms used by patients:
fireballs in my ukrous- fibroids in my uterus
smile a mighty Jesus - spinal meningitis
Also, my 6 year old wanted to know the size of his sister's bed.He asked if it was a king, a queen or a joker.
We have so many of these in our family! The one that comes to mind is when my Father-in-law says he is "acquieseing" from a room! And my little boy saw a picture of a milkshake today and said "Mommy- that's a milk shaker!!!"
my sister-in-law thought until she was well out of college that it was "windshield factor" instead of "windchill factor". My husband thought he had a "billy button" until junior high....
Not too long ago, my 14 year old daughter was talking about 2 of her friends being so much alike and she said, "They are like two peas in a pot!" The rest of us fell out, which we do a lot because she is the baby and tends to have lots of malapropisms.
My 7 year old daughter's softball team competed in a World Series tournament last weekend. She calls it the "world serious".
Our cat had recently had kittens when my seven year old came in the Living Room and announced that there was an "ability cord" on the carpet. When I asked her to repeat herself... she looked at the like I was crazy and said it again... "A B I L I T Y C O R D!!
I turned to my husband and said... I think you better go check that out, I think she probably meant an umbilical cord. Thankfully... that wasn't what it was.
Lynn
My 2 year old said, "Ladies and jumpermen," today. She also happened to be jumping while she said it.
How about "What's this here sauce" for Worchestershire sauce.
One of my nieces says "pudge" instead of "fudge"....how appropriate! My mom seems to have her very own vocabulary full of malapropisms, but most are not good for this blog. She really slaughters "Neosporin"! And how many people misprounouce "alzheimers" which is now commonly known as "all-timers".
Have a blast in Minn Minn...my birthplace!!!
There's an old Point Of Grace song (before they were even called that, they were "Say So") and the song was "On Our Knees" but they sing it really fast. About the fourth time through the cassette tape my sister and I were listening to, our little brother asked, "Why is there a song about 'Arby's' on a Jesus tape?" (Arby's is a very popular roast beef fast food chain around here). It took us a while but we still smile EVERY TIME a Point of Grace song comes on, twenty years later.
My mom used to put mousse in my brother's hair and he hated it! He would flee down the hall yelling "No goose! No goose!"
My daughter comes up with these malopropisms all the time! We have said that she has her own dictionary! Here's some of her funny sayings from when she was smaller:
She'd say "kitchen" instead of "chicken."
She called her bedroom the "breadroom."
She called pizza "cheapa." My Dad still remembers that.
When my son was small (he's a teen now) he came up with some pretty funny sayings! One thing I remember is that he would call cake "take." And when he said the word broke, he would say "broket" (broke with the "t" sound at the end).
Loved reading all the posts! Absoultely made me laugh out loud!
The first time I had met hubby's parents, we were sitting around talking and they were telling me about some embarrasing times he went through during puberty(didn't we all).... his 8 year old sister kept interrupting to ask us what "pewtery" was!!!
One I was growing up I LOVED the Christmas song, "Walking in a winter wonderland" Until I was in my early 20's I thought the song went as follows...
"...later on, we'll PRESPIRE as we dream by the fire. To face unafraid the plans that we made walking in a winter wonderland."
Someone (hubby) finally told me that they CONSPIRE not PRESPIRE by the fire.
My 7 year old daughter says them all the time but now that I am trying to think of them, I can't think of a one.
Cara
My son use to say when it was foggy outside..."it's froggy, Momma." I still catch myself saying today!
---she'd invite us over for dinner because she was making "chicken chests" (breasts made her blush)...oh how funny! So sweet! Sounds like our family! The only thing close I can think of is that instead of singing the lyrics "you make me feel like a NATURAL WOMAN" my sister would sing (out LOUD) "you make me feel like a man, I'm a woman"...still cracks me up! AND a quick shout out to all of the "senior"ita siestas' out there!
Tonight at Church we were finishing up Week 5 in Beloved Disciple! Then talk of the great excitement of seeing LPM Live tomorrow! Dear Beth, we knew you would be a little concerned over humid hair so we said a prayer for your Texas hair. We got you covered! :) If anything we can worship in unison, with the flat frizzies!
My BFF Kaye, announces on night at church that she was going to serve TEQUILA Soup instead of Tortellia soup. Then when she goes to eat Mexican, she asks for GUATEMALLIA intead of quacamolie.(Ya'll be gentle on my spelling now!) Look out San Antonio she's on her way!!! She also thought alambre was ALLY Bamma.
Oh yeah the Malapropism! I forgot to tell you how much I love my Pasture and his wife at Central Lutheran! :)
One of my daughters would say "I'm all fused up" for I'm confused.
My other daughter said "It's lundering" for thundering and lightning.
These were both from years ago but we still practice them today.
My friend (now a pastor!) got all the way to High School before he realized that the words to the Doxology are NOT, in fact:
"Praise God from Whom all blessings flow ... praise Him all creatures, HERE WE GO!"
So glad there is a name for my malady. My first trial, as intern, for the District Attorney Office - in closing I asked that the jury to find the "prostitution has found the defendant guilty beyond any reasonable doubt." (I meant "prosecution") I am sure that is in some lawyer goof ups somewhere!
When my daughter was 3, she asked if she could please have "Berries and Boys" syrup on her pancakes.
If you don't get that one ... reverse it.
My 2 year old son got a haircut this week so that we could spike his hair. Yesterday while I was fixing his hair I asked him if he liked his spiky hair and he looked at me and with the cutest serious look on his face he said "I love my spicy hair!" I quickly tried to correct him and he assured me that it was indeed "spicy hair" And our favorite malapropism from him is his response to "I love you sweetheart" he says right back to us "I love you too sweetart."
My grandmother was trying to say Quasimodo (the Hunchback of Notre Dame) but instead it came out Cozyquadimo. My family is FULL of things like that, but I think that's our favorite. :)
One more...
We had a Sunday School teacher about 8 or 9 years ago who would say we were "hairs of God" instead "heirs of God." Or he'd speak of us as "God's hairs" instead of "God's heirs." Drove me crazy. :o)
Love, Anna
My husband and I have a 9 year old son "Isaac". For as long as we can remember..since he began to talk, the child will say "Well mommy or well daddy..agleast I did my best, or agleast we were all here together" instead of saying "well at least....." We die laughing under our breath because he says it so seriously!!! We don't have the heart to correct him.
Praying on your behalf for the LP Live event this weekend.
Isaac's Mom
My husband works with a man who once said,
"He's libel to just bring a isuzu and start shooting" (uzi)
and once he said....
"It's on the mezaline." (mezzanine)
and....
"I got that new tool at lobes" (Lowes)
He has a few more, but some of them are not appropriate for this format :)
Stephanie
My husband is from South America and has quite a few malapropisms!!!! How about "I beg your apartment" for I beg your pardon? And then there's the one he's really famous for in our family. When I first met him, I thought he could possibly be a womanizer, so I told him "I've got your number!" He replied "who give you my number?" That accent and that cute and funny, I was hooked!
This one really isn't a malapropism but is so cute, I have to share. When he first moved here, he joined every soccer team he could find in order to make friends. He noticed that someone wouldn't be there for a game, so he would ask where they were and the response was "oh they are out-of-town!" This happened quite frequently so one day when he heard that another friend was out-of-town, he asked very innocently "where is Out-of-Town? I want to go there if it's that great that everybody goes all the time!!" Isn't he precious??
when i was 6 years old, instead of singing ..."saved a wretch like me-" i would confidently sing, 'save a "wrench" like me'...i thought it had something to do with us being used as God's tools or something.
I'll never forget the time my dad said, in all seriousness, "We'll burn that bridge when we get to it." I almost fell on the floor laughing. He also told my sister once to clean the "scoff" marks on the floor. Between laughs, she told him that they were "scuff" marks. He asked, "So what's scoff?" She answered, "It's what I'm doing to you...right now." Gotta love him.
My daughter called overalls "over hauls" when she was tee-niny and that's what we still call them. So sweet...My kids looked so precious in their overhauls! I miss those days!
tessa
one more....
Years ago when I would sing the song...
"My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness...all other ground is stinking sand...(instead of sinking sand) I thought then it was stinking sand! :)
Though it's not unintentional, "SIESTA" could be one.
Um, I'm from Houston, but live in MN. Minnesota is no match to Houston's humidity. They complain, but they don't know what real humidity is. I promise you won't break a sweat while you're here, and your hair will be gloriously in place.
I make up words all the time...and proudly so while "W" is still in office!! I can't think of any of mine, but have you siestas seen the commercial for the "DISH DVR"? It touts the ability to "recordificate"...hee hee
I do this ALL the time! It's the source of a lot of laughter in my family. I mean to use one word and then another word comes out my mouth which is similar but not what I meant.
Here's my latest Malaproprism. Just this weekend, my husband and I decided to plant some vines in our backyard. My husband is a huge green thumb and knows plants by their names. I, on the other hand, know plants by their color (the purple ones etc). So we decided that a pretty vine named Clematis would be what we'd plant in the backyard. So Saturday morning my husband was working in the yard and I was headed out to do some errands and I yelled "Honey, do you want me to pick up some Chlamydia?" He began laughing hysterically at which point I realized I said the wrong word. His response was "Please don't!".
I do this so often we have named it my name + ism. I'm 35 and have been saying the wrong words since I can remember. It's comforting to know there is an official word to describe my problem. I have to say it does create many belly laugh moments.
We can't wait to see you in MPLS Mrs. Beth. Praying for you and the team for a fresh word and low humidity! We love you!
Years ago, my sweet grandmother stayed in a fancy hotel and called home to tell about the big zucchini in her room. When she talked about putting her feet in it, we realized she was talking about a jacuzzi. :-) She now lives with Jesus, and I'm sure she has her feet in some heavenly zucchini every so often!
I love reading your blog, and have just now learned how to leave a comment! I'll be praying for you this weekend, Beth.
I picked up a word my mother always used to say, and it wasn't until my husband pointed it out to me (laughingly), that I realized it wasn't really a word. I hadn't really thought about it before. It's "smothercate". It's a combination of smother, and suffocate. It must be brought on my having lots of children "smothering" your space, and by the "suffocating" humidity here in Louisiana. Definitely "Smothercating" sums it up!
I once worked with a fellow who did this often. He told me once that the humility out was really bad, meaning the humidity. But my favorite had to be the time he was telling me the best way to cook steaks. He told me to "urinate" them for several hours before I put them on the grill. I thought I would die laughing. What made it even funnier was that he did not know he was doing it. Thank heavens he had a really good sense of humor about it.
Peggy
I am here waiting in Minneapolis. I can't wait to hear you and see what God will teach me through you. Thank you for being obedient to him! My mom and I love going to your conventions and actually drove all the way to Minot North Dakota several years ago. I get to leave my girls (3 and 1) at home this weekend and come to see you! The weather forecast is looking not so humid for tomorrow :-)
My mother is Japanese and she pronounces r's as l's. One day with a friend I said I needed to get a laser blade. Of course she thought I was wanting something from Star Wars. I now know it is a razor blade.
My son and I were having a conversation about euthansia and he continued the conversation about "youth in Asia". Finally my husband and I figured out what he was saying and busted up laughing.
One day, my daughter in 1st grade came home from school all excited.. the nurse let a girl in her class go home because she had "Head Lights." My daughter thought she was very lucky and wanted to get some "Head Lights" of her own. Needless to say, mom was not excited at that idea of head lice at our house!
I am so glad you are coming to Minnesota. I will be there tom. night and Sat. morning. My husband is staying with our two girls (3 and 1) and I get to come and be encouraged. I love coming to your conferences. Thank you for being obedient to Christ! You have made a difference in my life!
O.K.,my 87 y/o Aunt Helen, who I love dearly, has done it for years. Cracks me up! When she's going to rinse off in the shower, she calls it wrench off. The Bill Cosby Show was the Bill Crosby Show. Do you remember the store TG&Y. My grandmother always wanted to go to PG&Y. You know how you perform the Heimlich Maneuver on a person that is choking.....my friend Linda calls it the Heimlich Remover. This was fun. Karen
I have 2.
First, I grew up thinking that Neopolitan ice cream was Metropolitan ice cream. My family had a dear friend who worked as a Metropolitan Life Insurance Salesman, so I just knew the ice cream was named after his company. I still call it Metropolitan ice cream which cracks my husband up.
Second, my oldest daughter was 4 when my middle daughter was born. One day when I walked out of a room, I asked her to keep her sister occupied for a couple of minutes. When I came back, she proudly announced that she had kept her "rocky pied" the whole time. Hysterical.
To my great constipation I incidentally flashed a squeegee down the abode.
Translation: To my great consternation I accidentally flushed a sponge down the commode.
Love you prayerfully,
Kim from wildfire country
I've always loved to hear my son speaking about
You Nork, the state north of us, but THAT is officially a spoonerism, not a malapropism. And "spoonerism" is just fun to say all by itself, isn't it?
My husband is quite the malapropist, but I can't think of a single example right now.
Oh, I have one more. My 3 year old calls her bathing suit her "baby soup." I hope she never outgrows that one.
OOOO, I love this post! How fun! Once on a family road trip, my husband rolled down the window and a napkin blew out. My 5 year old(at the time) said "Ummmm, Daddy just glittered".(littered). She was also the one to say she was "burring". (Freezing..Burrr) And my sweet son always says after he takes a bath that he's "clean-a-match-a-whistle". (Clean as a whistle)
Ha! Ha! Those are sooooo funny! My daughter would always get excited when she went to the "beauty-ator" to get her hair cut! Another is the Curl up and Dye place!!!
Well, just hair clip the governor!
Praying for you and the team and those that are attending this weekend! Can't wait until August!!
Let me just first say that my 12 year old son has his own language - we call the words that come from him "Jacobisms". He's always mixing something up. We were at Chili's restaurant getting ready to order (I think it's hilarious!). He asked the waitress for a "sanitizer" instead of an "appetizer".
My sweet step-daughter who's 8, still says pasketti for spaghetti.
I used to sing "Rudolph, the red nosed raindeer, you'll go down and hear a story". My Mom loves to tell about that one.
When we went to an Italian restaurant, my 4 year old son said to the waiter, "Please can I have some of that fettucini-I'm-afraid-of." (Fettucini Alfredo)
Another time he ran into the house screaming in pain, saying, "Mommy, Mommy, I got stung by a yellow sweater!"
With a four year old at home, we get these a lot! The latest...
"Grandma listens to "crunchy" (country) music in her car!"
My five year old niece memorized Romans 5:8 for AWANA as, "While we were in centers, Rice died for us."
Also, she loves drinking "Gadiator" when exercising, looking for "she-shells" on the beach, and asks the Bah, bah black sheep if he has any "mool". TOO PRECIOUS!!!
My daughter use to call barefooted-birdfooted.
My brother's name is Billy. We called belly buttons- billy buttons. I thought that was really the name until I was high school.
Any my daughter once called the plate with the lettuce, tomatoes, pickles on it for hamburgers- The Plate of Delights!
When I was little, my younger brother was cracking jokes like young boys do, we told him he was a real comedian. He was immediately incensed and retorted that we would all be pedestrians when we grew up!
Sad to say, but he STILL has to listen to that story at family gatherings. My dad seems to forget everyone has already heard it. I'll be there too someday.
I am praying for God's abundance on the women in MN!
Love you so Beth!
Jina
I had a friend (by the same name and it wasn't me!) that we laughed about many times because she consistently "malapropiated" what we called ~kimisms~
....once she asked if she could borrow someone's ovulating fan (oscillating)
Beth...as our prayers go up for you...His blessings will come down!
I just have to laugh at my best friend every time she says she needs her "lipchap". I don't know about her, but I don't need to apply something that's gonna chap them!! :)
Working as a labor and delivery nurse for many years, I always crack up when someone would ask for an "epidermis" !!!
In the old days I played albums on my stereo. My friend played his alvums.
I sang the Oscar Mayer Weiner song. My sister sang the Oscar Myer Meaner song.
I eat spaghetti. My nephew eats ba-sketti.
I eat tacos. My aunt eats tacas.
Beth - have a blessed weekend.
My 3 year-old (almost 4) does a bunch of these and my husband I adore them all! We are just loathe to correct her, they are all so cute!
She says "dubber" instead of butter and my personal favorite ~ "clip clops" instead of flip flops.
Blessings to all of you in Siesta land!
When I was younger I did this ALL the time and played it off like I knew what I was doing. But, all I can think of right now is...
Whataburger = Water Burger
When I was making a concoction the other night, I kept saying "contraption" instead of "concoction!"
These are fun. I'll have to remember more!
Lindsee
Love this, I have had a really good laugh tonight!
My now 15 year old daughter use to call her elbow her elmo, she told me one day she thought it was funny that her elmo was named the same thing as Elmo on Seseme Street.... she was 4 at the time her and I still get a good laugh over it.
Hi Beth ,
What a GREAT discussion thread.
My husband's cousin in East TN has always called a wheelbarrow - a wheelbar. And back when Geraldo Rivera had his own tv show , this same cousin called him " Herrano Givera ".
Too funny , all of it.
my 2 year old daughter said,
she wanted to "side for inning tool." (outside for swimming pool)
and Beth I will be praying for you in Minneapolis this weekend. I don't get to join you there from Central Wisconsin, but I will be joining in on the simulcast on Aug 1st and 2nd from Marshfield, WI at a church there. I cannot wait!!!
God bless you,
Heather
We love you, Beth!
My family all had such a chuckle when our friend's sweet daughter had to explain to all of us, very seriously, the importance of having all cats and dogs "spayed and noodled".
It still makes me smile, even though that little girl is now grown.
Thanks for letting us share!
Hmmm...
When I was a teenager my dad and I were having an arguement and he made some sarcastic comment to which I replied, "Hey! I resemble that remark!" instead of "resent." It was completely accidental and ended the arguement in hysterical laughter. It has been a favorite phrase ever since.
I have always purposely said, "Cheese" instead of cheers at toasts. My kids call New Years Eve "doing the cheese."
And it isn't quite a malprop but my youngest son has always loved the song "Blessed be the name of the lord" but he didn't get the words quite right. He sang it "You give and take away... you give and take away... the LORD has bills to pay so blessed be Your name."
1. We were working in the garden when my dearest friend asked if I can fetch the WHEEL BARREL. It took me showing her in a dictionary that it really is a WHEELBARROW. Since then, I've heard other American friends calling it the same!
2. While traveling South Africa with international friends, one asked that we "Pleas pass the ocean" (meaning lotion).
3. Another international colleague dead seriously asked at lunch for us to pass her a KIDNAP (meaning NAPKIN).
What fun. I know I make many such bloopers in foreign languages! :)
I've got a couple:
A friend of mine tells a story about a time when she took a hard fall water-skiing ... she says she came up "grasping" for air (Helen Keller always comes to mind!).
My 3-year-old son is an endless supply of malypropisms. Dancing the bunny hop with a tv show the other day, he stopped suddenly and declared, "Mommy, I can hear my heart beeping!"
Finally, one day recently he had gotten in trouble for something and told me he needed some "goop". Bewildered, I questioned him further. He said, "You know--goop--what Miss Bonnie says". His preschool teacher had been telling him to "regroup"!!! LOL!!!
Tammy
You'll get a kick out of this, Beth. My sister's name is Beth also and her husband's name is Trent. When my son was 2 or 3 he called them aunt Death and Uncle Dent. That one still cracks us up.
Also, when he was 3 he was a ring bearer and he was so proud of his tortito (tuxedo)...
A friend's 5-year-old son was intrigued that we had an extra bedroom. Anytime they came over, he always asked if he could go play in "the guessing room" (guest bedroom)!!!
Tammy
Maybe some of you girls remember the song "Angel of the Morning" by Juice Newton (I think).... Part of the song is "Just touch my cheek before you leave me...." For the longest time, I sang along with her saying "Just brush my teeth before you leave me...." (Yes, even I thought it sounded strange, but, then, I was much younger at the time! :)
Also.... you may remember the song "Who wrote the book of love..." Well my dear sweet grandmother always thought they were saying, "Who broke the milk cow down...." (Of course, she was from a prior generation!)
Don't know if these really count as malapropisms.... but they came to mind as I read all of these great comments.
Blessings all!
Terry :)
I don't comment often, but my hubby would just die if I didn't confess. Maybe not a malapropism, but I have a knack for messing up cliches:
"Let's get this ball on the road."
"Don't beat a dead apple."
"Don't rain on my party."
"Take a stab in the dark..."
"You are the kettle AND the pot..."
...if only I could remember more.
Beth,
I am laughing so hard at these and if feels good to laugh. When I was a child I always sang the wrong words to a hymm in church. My words were "He socked me and he bopped me with his redeeming love" . I know now it is Sought me and bought me but for awhile there, I thought God was really mean. My kids also have one that they all say and it is "butt naked" instead of buck naked. I cannot convince them otherwise.
God Bless you Girl!
A Houston Siesta
Once after athe Christmas story the teacher ask the class to drraw a picture of what they remembered. One drew the story in great detail but added a small chunky boy in the corner. Puzzled the teacher asked about this and was told that it was just round John Virgin; Silent Night (round yon virgin) Take time to listen to children sing and you would be surprised to hear what that might say.
My little sister Virginia used to tell everyone we were going to fly on "Cotton Tail" Airlines when we were little girls and would fly every summer from Denver to Tulsa.
My baby sister Beth used to sing a fine version of Hark the Herold...
"Hark the Herold Angels sing, going to the football game," instead of "glory to the new-born king."
When my oldest daughter was younger she asked for the grover. What she really meant to ask for was butter. (We had been talking about presidents.) We all had a good laugh and still sometimes ask for the grover to be passed. Kim B. in AZ
Oh, what a fun challenge....everyone's posts are just hilarious......
The funniest one of these that I can come up with is courtesy of my 3-year-old, Conner....He loves to play with any kind of calculator....only he calls it the "Count-u-lator." How appropriate! LOL
He also loves to eat chips with homemade guacamole. However, he always asks for chips and Mommy's "ravioli."
Have a great weekend in Minneapolis, Beth....and may the Lord bless every word spoken there into the hearts of the women who hear them. :O) Thank you again, Siestas....I so appreciate being a part of y'all!!
Staci
I was in a Christian clown Troupe back in my college years, [and mind you, that was from 1986-1991]. The Clown Troupe was called "Foolish Wisdom Christian Clown Troupe", but is no longer is existence. However, we were all volunteers and used pantomime, along with a narrator and went to churches all over southern Wisconsin sharing Jesus' parables to congregations and childrens' Sunday School classes. But, the funniest thing I recall is that one of the people who re-wrote Jesus' parables was named Ed Degroot, and he last re-wrote "The Parable of the Talents", but couldn't think of what to call it, so one day, as he was going upstairs, he dubbed this newly re-written parable "The Parable of the Morgulfarbs".
And, in the acting out of the parable, each of the 2 prosperous clowns went around these churches, gathering handfuls of imaginary morgulfarbs [aka: talents], as the other clown found an imaginary treasure box and locked up his/her [we were mostly females] 1 morgulfarb and placed many imaginary locks on it.
The "word" "morgulfarb" is the most unusual word that I have ever heard of in my lifetime, and yet it was actually used for many years in Christian settings, and all for God's glory alone, as we did not accept anything from these churches except for help with gas monies, then any other donations were given away to some children's organization [after we bought any required supplies for the next school year]. And, each year that I was involved in "Foolish Wisdom", the donations came to at least $500.00, that was all donated for His glory!
And, it was THE most fun thing that I ever did during my college years!!!
In Christ's Love,
Jennifer O.
Southern Wisconsin
.... After a holiday in Rome, a friend of mine told me the highlight of her trip was her visit to the Sixteenth Chapel (Sistine Chapel)....
maria cristina
Two funny ones from our family:
1) The hymn, "Up From the Grave He Arose" - our children (and my mom said she did the same thing when she was a girl) actually sing - until old enough to point out the error) "Up from the gravy he arose, with a mighty triumph o'er his toes..."
2) Our oldest had a hard time saying "bottom" - Instead, he'd say "bobbin," and it has stuck! 6 children later, our now 3 year old, when he does something that he knows was wrong, comes to us cryin and pleading, "No pank my bobbin!"
Chester Drawers instead of Chest of Drawers
I said this until I got married...thanks to the influence of my mom's very southern roots.
Had to share this since from reading your blog that you shop at this store for groceries. I am in my mid thirties now, but when I was around 3 & 4 years old,I use to say "Mom are we going to Grover's (a character from Sesame Street) instead of Krogers & my mom still remembers it. I'm sure you have memories of your two daughters "malapropisms" and making new ones with your grandson. Wishing LPM the best this upcoming weekend. Thanks for all you do!
Ok - here is a malapropism (had to copy and paste that word to make sure it is spelled right!) When I was a little girl, my parents would lament the moral outrage of what I understood to be 'so populars' It was many years later that I learned it was actually 'soap operas' Go figure!
Blessings,
Rebecca
Pakistan
Hey Rachel from SD - I thought it was Chester Drawers!!!
Somewhere along the line, I started calling fabric softener.... cream rinse (I guess like for one's hair). Somewhere along the line, I taught it to my children. They grew up. They went to college. They had roommates. They started doing their own laundry...... My son called me telling me everybody thinks he's an idiot, did I not know it was fabric softener??? Some of these things are such a part of us and our thinking that even though we know....we just don't care!
P.S. He still calls it fabric softener (and he's now 26!) Ahhhhh..... don't 'cha just love how they can't get away from their raising!
Sometimes for fun I still use these that my children said when they were small...
"Envelote" for envelope
"Piddow" for pillow
"Whole Tale" for hotel
"Bare-footie" for bare footed
"roka" for okra
"yogret" for yogurt
"Chief Salad" for chef salad
"Little Scissors" for Little Ceasars (the pizza place)
Also it was funny when my son was about 3 & he wanted a slice of cheese, he'd say..."I want a cheese sandwich with no bread."
These bring back such happy memories. Thanks! :)
Oh this is funny Beth..so funny... because my sister in law and I are..well, we are BAD...We keep tabs on these "words" that our mother in law uses. We say that we must start writing them down. Ok, here is one..she was talking about the squigies ( I don't even know if I spelled it right), but the things that you wipe windshields with .. anyway..she called it a Weegie. (all I could think of was a satanic weegie board). Ok, here is another--Gazebo..she calls it JAZZ-A-BOO..HAHAHAH! We call them __isms (fill in the blank w/ her first name, which I will not do here)
There are more, but I will be nice today ;-)
Alyce
Our son used the phrase "ice in case" instead of saying "just in case". In our family we still smile and use his way of saying it. He is 22 years old now! :o)
When I was little we would often sing songs in the car (to entertain me I am sure while we were driving a far distance). Anyway, we had went through all the songs and I said "I want to sing the Clown Song"... Well, mama and daddy went through every song they thought we had ever sang... And of course as a young 3 year old I was getting impatient with them getting to the "right" one. Finally, they figured it out and have never let me forget it. The song goes:
"We are climbing Jacob's ladder... ever 'clown goes' higher, higher" (instead of "round goes")
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